# Gill 1977: The Genre of the Atlantis Story

> Christopher Gill, 1977. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited as a standard classicist's study of what kind of story Plato's Atlantis is.

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# The Genre of the Atlantis Story

Christopher Gill, 1977. _Classical Philology_ 72(4): 287-304.

A study of what kind of writing the Atlantis story is; cited only by its bibliographic details, as the companion to Gill 1979.

**Eye of the Sahara and AtlantisSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.1086/366370](https://doi.org/10.1086/366370)** Checked against the original0

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Cited as a standard classicist's study of what kind of story Plato's Atlantis is.

## Cited by on this site 2 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)

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

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## Cite it

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Gill, C. (1977). The Genre of the Atlantis Story. Classical Philology, 72(4), 287-304. https://doi.org/10.1086/366370
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1086/366370)

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