Roman History, Book 17

Ammianus Marcellinus, 1935. Ammianus Marcellinus, vol. 1 (Loeb Classical Library).

At 17.7.13, in a digression on earthquakes after the destruction of Nicomedia, Ammianus says the gaping kind swallowed "in the Atlantic Ocean an island more extensive than all Europe".

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Primary text: Ammianus gives the island "more extensive than all Europe" swallowed in the Atlantic as an example of a gaping earthquake (17.7.13).

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

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Ammianus Marcellinus (1935). Roman History, Book 17. Ammianus Marcellinus, vol. 1 (Loeb Classical Library). https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/17*.html

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. “Roman History, Book 17.” Ammianus Marcellinus, vol. 1 (Loeb Classical Library) (1935).