# Philo of Alexandria : On the Eternity of the World (De aeternitate mundi)

> Philo of Alexandria, . 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Primary text: Philo repeats Plato's account of the island overwhelmed by the sea in one…

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# 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](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPB804S9YE/every-later-ancient-writer-reviewed-here-who-repeats-plato)

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