# Herodotus 1920: Histories, Book 4, chapters 178–185

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# Histories, Book 4, chapters 178–185

Herodotus, 1920. Harvard University Press.

Herodotus's itinerary of Libya. The river Triton empties into the great Tritonian lake (4.178); twenty days' journey from the Garamantes, past the Atarantes, by another hill of salt, live the Atlantes, named after Mount Atlas, slender and conical, which the people call "the pillar of heaven" (4.184); the salt ridge runs to the Pillars of Heracles and beyond it Libya is desolate, waterless and rainless (4.185).

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

## What it's used for here

Primary text for Lake Tritonis (4.178), the Atlantes and Mount Atlas (4.184), and the waterless Libya beyond the salt ridge (4.185).

## Cited by on this site 8 records

[The World according to Herodotus (1897 reconstruction)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/artifacts/ART0DCP8P2KV0T8/the-world-according-to-herodotus-1897-reconstruction)

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[By the fifth century BC Herodotus knew inner Libya as waterless and rainless](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPAGPS20DJ/by-the-fifth-century-bc-herodotus-knew-inner-libya-as)

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[Herodotus's Atlantes are a Libyan people named after Mount Atlas, with no island and no flood](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPB8KZ8VPY/herodotuss-atlantes-are-a-libyan-people-named-after-mount)

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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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[Atlas Mountains](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/places/PLC0DCP7WZ3YW9Y/atlas-mountains)

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[Lake Tritonis (Chott el Djerid)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/places/PLC0DCP7XJGDEER/lake-tritonis-chott-el-djerid)

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

PLC

[The Atlantes of Herodotus](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/places/PLC0DCP7X7JT6RP/the-atlantes-of-herodotus)

PLC

## Cite it

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Herodotus (1920). Histories, Book 4, chapters 178–185. Harvard University Press. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=4:chapter=184
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