Marcellinus, Ammianus

Ammianus Marcellinus (330-395 AD) was a Greek historian, who was well-known to the Roman Emperor Julian. He is widely quoted on the internet as having written that the destruction of Atlantis was an accepted fact by the intelligentsia of Alexandria. However, I am indebted to Bernhard Beier of Atlantisforschung.de for pointing out that no such statement was made by Marcellinus, referring to the English translations of his work by John C. Rolfe^(a) and Charles D. Yonge^(b). On the Atlantisforschung website^(c) be suggests that the quote originated from an overly liberal interpretation of a line from Lewis Spence’s The History of Atlantis^[259.33]. He described a class of earthquake that suddenly swallows up large tracts of land as had happened in the Atlantic to a large island.

^(a) https://archive.org/details/ammianusmarcelli01ammiuoft

^(b) https://archive.org/details/romanhistoryof00ammiiala

^(c) https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=Ammianus_Marcellinus  (German)