Evidence · Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis

Diodorus took the Atlantians from a mythical romance written two centuries after Plato, and does not link them to…

The Loeb editor notes that Diodorus drew this account from Dionysius Skytobrachion, a writer of the mid-second century BC whose work was a mythical romance; Diodorus never connects his Atlantians with Plato's Atlantis, and in his account it is the marsh, not the Atlantians' land, that vanishes.

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Yes: Diodorus's Atlantians of western Libya, by the ocean and Lake Tritonis, are a North African Atlantis

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Diodorus took the Atlantians from a mythical romance written two centuries after Plato, and does not link them to… [Evidence EVD0DCPB95GFA3Y]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DCPB95GFA3Y

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