# 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…

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# 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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## What it bears on 1 answer

[Yes: Diodorus's Atlantians of western Libya, by the ocean and Lake Tritonis, are a North African Atlantis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/answers/ANS0DCP9Q7XFSV7/yes-diodoruss-atlantians-of-western-libya-by-the-ocean-and)

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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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