# Cameron 1983: Crantor and Posidonius on Atlantis

> Alan Cameron, 1983. 4 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the classicist's case that Plato made the story up and that the ancient…

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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.

**Eye of the Sahara and AtlantisSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.1017/S0009838800034315](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800034315)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

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.

## Cited by on this site 4 records

[Classical scholarship reads Atlantis as Plato's own fiction, the earliest narrative fiction in Greek](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPBP8XCFN2/classical-scholarship-reads-atlantis-as-platos-own-fiction)

Evidence

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[Plato presents the story as true history from Egypt, and some ancient readers took it so](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPBPPWJTJB/plato-presents-the-story-as-true-history-from-egypt-and-some)

Evidence

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[Those in antiquity who took the story as history also looked for it in the outer sea](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara/evidence/EVD0DCPB8BYYC7D/those-in-antiquity-who-took-the-story-as-history-also-looked)

Evidence

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[The Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eye-of-the-sahara)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

```
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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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800034315)

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