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The Library of History, Book 3, chapters 49–61
Diodorus Siculus, 1935. Diodorus of Sicily, vol. 2 (Loeb Classical Library).
The Amazons of Libya lived on the island Hespera in the marsh Tritonis, near the ocean, Ethiopia and Mount Atlas (3.53); they conquered the Atlantians, "the most civilized men" of those parts, and razed their city Cerne (3.54); the marsh vanished in an earthquake (3.55); the Atlantians' account of the gods follows (3.56–61). The Loeb editor notes that Diodorus took this from the mythical romance of Dionysius Skytobrachion (mid-2nd century BC).
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Primary text for the Atlantians of western Libya, the Amazons of the marsh Tritonis and the city of Cerne (3.53–61), the only ancient text that sets an Atlantis name in north-west Africa.
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Diodorus Siculus (1935). The Library of History, Book 3, chapters 49–61. Diodorus of Sicily, vol. 2 (Loeb Classical Library). https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/3D*.html
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. “The Library of History, Book 3, chapters 49–61.” Diodorus of Sicily, vol. 2 (Loeb Classical Library) (1935).