# Plato 1925: Timaeus

> Plato, 1925. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The primary text: the first telling of the Atlantis story, its place beyond the Pillars of…

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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).

**Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis** **Primary source** BookChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

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).

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[Plato places Atlantis in the Atlantic beyond the Pillars of Heracles, ruling Libya as far as Egypt](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKT8D9KGFB/plato-places-atlantis-in-the-atlantic-beyond-the-pillars-of)

Evidence

EVD

[Plato presents the story as true history from Egypt, and some ancient readers took it so](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPBPPWJTJB/plato-presents-the-story-as-true-history-from-egypt-and-some)

Evidence

EVD

[Plato's Atlantis was an island swallowed by the sea; the Richat stands about 485 m up and some 500 km inland](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCKT7THMZK1/platos-atlantis-was-an-island-swallowed-by-the-sea-the)

Evidence

EVD

[Plato tells the Atlantis story in the Timaeus and Critias](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/events/EVT0DCKQVJ8FJTK/plato-tells-the-atlantis-story-in-the-timaeus-and-critias)

EVT

[Plato](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/people/FIG0DCKQC9DWQBT/plato)

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[The Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara)

The mystery article

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[Strait of Gibraltar](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/places/PLC0DCKQ5C153FD/strait-of-gibraltar)

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## Cite it

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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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