(2) - Crantor believed the story of Atlantis to be a true historical fact.
So much so that he and others even accused Plato of having copied the whole Republic from the Egyptians and of having used the story of Atlantis to demonstrate that the Athenians truly once lived according to that perfect constitution.However the dialogues only "pretend" that the antediluvian Athenians correspond to the inhabitants of the Republic, they are not even presented as perfect and they also perish in the same cataclysm of Atlantis, so this kind of accusation makes no sense to me.Crantor adds that the details narrated by Plato are true and confirmed by the prophets of the Egyptians who report how this story could still be found written on columns in Egypt!