On the Eternity of the World (De aeternitate mundi)

Philo of Alexandria, .

At section 141 Philo, citing Plato's Timaeus, gives the island of Atlantis, greater than Africa and Asia, overwhelmed by earthquake and flood in a single day and night, as an example of land turned to sea.

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Primary text: Philo repeats Plato's account of the island overwhelmed by the sea in one day and night (section 141).

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Every later ancient writer reviewed here who repeats Plato puts Atlantis at sea, in the Atlantic

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Philo of Alexandria (n.d.). On the Eternity of the World (De aeternitate mundi). http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book35.html

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