# Classical scholarship reads Atlantis as Plato's own fiction, the earliest narrative fiction in Greek

> Cameron calls it "virtually demonstrable" that Plato made the story up; Gill reads it as the earliest narrative fiction in Greek literature; Vidal-Naquet…

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# Classical scholarship reads Atlantis as Plato's own fiction, the earliest narrative fiction in Greek

Cameron calls it "virtually demonstrable" that Plato made the story up; Gill reads it as the earliest narrative fiction in Greek literature; Vidal-Naquet treats it as a fiction made to say something about the Athenian state; Nesselrath's lecture is titled Plato and the Invention of Atlantis.

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[Atlantis was Plato's invention; the Richat only shares its ringed shape](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/answers/ANS0DCKSQBMD29D/atlantis-was-platos-invention-the-richat-only-shares-its)

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