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Life of Solon
Plutarch, 1914. Plutarch's Lives, vol. 1 (Loeb Classical Library).
Solon heard the story of the lost Atlantis from Psenophis of Heliopolis and Sonchis of Saïs and began a poem on it (26.1), which he gave up in old age (31.3); Plato took it up and died before finishing it, his only unfinished work (32.1–2).
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Primary text: Plutarch on Solon hearing the Atlantis story from the priests of Saïs and leaving his poem on it unfinished, and on Plato's unfinished telling (26.1, 31.3, 32.1–2).
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Plutarch (1914). Life of Solon. Plutarch's Lives, vol. 1 (Loeb Classical Library). https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Solon*.html
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. “Life of Solon.” Plutarch's Lives, vol. 1 (Loeb Classical Library) (1914).