# Those in antiquity who took the story as history also looked for it in the outer sea

> Proclus reports that Crantor, the first commentator on Plato, took the Atlantis story as plain history, and cites Marcellus's Ethiopic History for…

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# Those in antiquity who took the story as history also looked for it in the outer sea

Proclus reports that Crantor, the first commentator on Plato, took the Atlantis story as plain history, and cites Marcellus's Ethiopic History for islands in the outer sea whose people kept a memory of the Atlantic island.

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## What it bears on 1 answer

[No: every ancient writer reviewed here who places Plato's Atlantis puts it in the Atlantic](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/answers/ANS0DCP9PXMGWYE/no-every-ancient-writer-reviewed-here-who-places-platos)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Those in antiquity who took the story as history also looked for it in the outer sea [Evidence EVD0DCPB8BYYC7D]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCPB8BYYC7D
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