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Timaeus
Plato, 1925. Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 9.
The dialogue in which Critias first tells the Atlantis story: an island in front of the Pillars of Heracles, larger than Libya and Asia together, whose kings ruled Libya as far as Egypt, and which in one grievous day and night was swallowed by the sea, leaving a shoal of mud (24e–25d).
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The primary text: the first telling of the Atlantis story, its place beyond the Pillars of Heracles and its sinking in one day and night (Timaeus 24e–25d).
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Plato (1925). Timaeus. Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 9. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0180:text=Tim.:section=24e
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. “Timaeus.” Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 9 (1925).