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Crantor and Posidonius on Atlantis
Alan Cameron, 1983. The Classical Quarterly 33(1): 81-91.
Argues that it is "virtually demonstrable" that Plato made the Atlantis story up, and sets out to remove one of the props of belief in it: the idea that Crantor and Posidonius took it as history.
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Cited for the classicist's case that Plato made the story up and that the ancient testimony of Crantor and Posidonius does not support belief in it.
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Cameron, A. (1983). Crantor and Posidonius on Atlantis. The Classical Quarterly, 33(1), 81-91. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800034315
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Cameron, Alan. “Crantor and Posidonius on Atlantis.” The Classical Quarterly 33, no. 1 (1983): 81-91. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800034315.