# Gill 1979: Plato's Atlantis Story and the Birth of Fiction

> Christopher Gill, 1979. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for Gill's argument that the Atlantis story is the earliest narrative fiction in…

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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.

**Eye of the Sahara and AtlantisSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.1353/phl.1979.0005](https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.1979.0005)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Cited for Gill's argument that the Atlantis story is the earliest narrative fiction in Greek literature, presented as true but invented.

## 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. (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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