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Plato's Atlantis Story and the Birth of Fiction
Christopher Gill, 1979. Philosophy and Literature 3(1): 64-78.
Reads the Atlantis story as the earliest piece of narrative fiction in Greek literature.
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Cited for Gill's argument that the Atlantis story is the earliest narrative fiction in Greek literature, presented as true but invented.
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Gill, C. (1979). Plato's Atlantis Story and the Birth of Fiction. Philosophy and Literature, 3(1), 64-78. https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.1979.0005
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Gill, Christopher. “Plato's Atlantis Story and the Birth of Fiction.” Philosophy and Literature 3, no. 1 (1979): 64-78. https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.1979.0005.