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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Libyan (North African) tribe of unknown location. Herodotus places them at Mt. Atlas (4.184.3–4), the second‐to‐last on a chain of oases separated by ten‐day journeys stretching west across the Saharan Desert, starting from EGYPT (4.181). Though he states that the last OASIS to the west beyond the Atlantes lies outside the PILLARS OF HERACLES (4.185.1–2), it is difficult to reconcile the distances involved in a way that would put his Atlantes in the modern Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria (let alone near the Strait of Gibraltar). The Atlantes are noteworthy for their habit of not eating any living thing and not dreaming while they sleep.

SEE ALSO: Atarantes; Atlantic Ocean; Dreams; Ethnography; Libya