# Waterfield 2011: Review: The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato's Myth, by Pierre Vidal-Naquet

> Kathryn Waterfield, 2011. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Review of Vidal-Naquet's history of the Atlantis myth (French 2005, English 2007)…

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# The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato's Myth. By Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Kathryn Waterfield, 2011. _The Heythrop Journal_ 52(6): 1037-1038.

A review of Vidal-Naquet's history of the Atlantis story (French 2005; English, Exeter 2007), which treats Atlantis as a fiction Plato made to say something about the Athenian state and follows how later writers reused it.

**Eye of the Sahara and AtlantisSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00699_6.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00699_6.x)** Checked against the original0

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Review of Vidal-Naquet's history of the Atlantis myth (French 2005, English 2007), cited for his view that the story is Plato's fiction and for his account of its later reuse.

## 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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Waterfield, K. (2011). The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato's Myth. By Pierre Vidal-Naquet. The Heythrop Journal, 52(6), 1037-1038. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00699_6.x
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