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  "title": "The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato's Myth",
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    "en": "Pierre Vidal-Naquet's 2007 study (University of Exeter Press; original French *L'Atlantide: Petite histoire d'un mythe platonicien*, 2005) is the standard contemporary scholarly treatment of the *Timaeus*/*Critias* Atlantis tradition and its long history of literal-historical reinterpretation. Vidal-Naquet's position is sceptical of any historical Atlantis: he reads the dialogues as Platonic political philosophy in mythological form rather than as preserving any genuine ancient tradition. The work is the principal mainstream scholarly source against which alternative-archaeological Atlantis identifications (the mid-Atlantic, the Mediterranean, Mauritania's Richat Structure) are positioned."
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  "publish_date": "2007",
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