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Geography, Book 13, chapter 1, section 36

Strabo, 1924. The Geography of Strabo.

On the Achaean wall at Troy, which Homer says was newly built, "or else it was not built at all, but fabricated and then abolished by the poet, as Aristotle says". The same comparison is applied to Atlantis at 2.3.6, which is why the remark there is read as Aristotle's.

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Primary text attributing to Aristotle the view that Homer invented the Achaean wall and then abolished it, the comparison Strabo applies to Atlantis at 2.3.6.

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Strabo (1924). Geography, Book 13, chapter 1, section 36. The Geography of Strabo. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0198:book=13:chapter=1:section=36
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