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Plato in the Timaeus attempts to give plausibility to the story by attributing it to Critias, who heard it from his grandfather Critias, who heard it from the legislator Solon, who heard it from an aged Egyptian priest during his travels.
Benjamin Jowett's notes on Timaeus comment thus:
Did Plato derive the legend of Atlantis from an Egyptian source? It
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While you phrased your question as "how did he know" I think your actual question is whether or not this happened, because there is no way to know where Plato got this information from, though I would assume it was verbal or some manuscript that is long since gone.
Now in regards to whether or not this is true, I doubt it due to the fact that Athens is ...
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