Atlantes and Atlantioi: From Plato to Dionysios Skytobrachion

One of the extended mythical narratives of Dionysius Scytobrachion--today k nown as the 'Libyan Stories'--contains curious tales concerning 'Atlantioi' . An investigation of the literary origins of this people reveals that Dion ysius has used materials from Herodotus (Book IV), Plato (the Atlantis Stor y) and (probably) the historian Theopompus (the Meropis excursus in Philipp ica VIII), extensively rearranging these materials to produce a new (and in some aspects, rather surprising) whole.