Rich Wrote:
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Hermione wrote:

> "A "war myth"? What's a "war myth"? The Atlantis
> tale was devised as a warning to contemporary
> Athenians of the perils of getting too big for
> their boots."

> -- Thats wrong. It's not a tale like the Trojan
> War. It's not a tale about Destruction or Floods
> or an ideal world.

Yes: that's precisely what it is. It's a tale of a golden age that was destroyed by the shortcomings of its inhabitants: so, in that respect, rather like other myths of this sort.

> The Egyptians remembered
> Pythagoras, too. That explains the math in
> Timaeus.

Do you have an Egyptian source that mentions Pythagoras?

> You Greeks are nothing but children. It's about
> friendship. Those are the magical pillars that
> hold up the sky, that shape our world.
> Friendship, that's the real magic. It's a
> beautiful message from a priest. A lesson I
> learned from Pleione.

Any refereces to friendship in Plato's tale are no more than incidental to the main story.

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