↑ Plato's contemporaries pictured the world as consisting of Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia (see the map of Hecataeus of Miletus). Atlantis, according to Plato, had conquered all Western parts of the known world, making it the literary counter-image of Persia. See Welliver, Warman (1977). Character, Plot and Thought in Plato’s Timaeus-Critias. Leiden: E.J. Brill. m/s. 42. ISBN90-04-04870-7.
↑ Hackforth, R. (1944). "The Story of Atlantis: Its Purpose and Its Moral". Classical Review. 58 (1): 7–9. JSTOR701961.
↑ David, Ephraim (1984). "The Problem of Representing Plato's Ideal State in Action". Riv. Fil.112: 33–53.
↑ The frame story in Critias tells about an alleged visit of the Athenian lawmaker Solon (c. 638 BC – 558 BC) to Egypt, where he was told the Atlantis story that supposedly occurred 9,000 years before his time.
↑ Feder, Kenneth (2011). "Lost: One Continent - Reward". Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (edisi Seventh). New York: McGraw-Hill. m/s. 141–164. ISBN978-0-07-811697-1.
