Rich Wrote:
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> What is the setting?
> It's a bunch of old friends sitting around the
> dinner table talking about the "Poem of Solon".
> ******
>
> Who was Amasis? Why is he mentioned? What Did he
> do?
>
> He also married a Greek princess named Ladice
> daughter of King Battus III (see Battus) and made
>
>
> alliances with Polycrates of Samos and Croesus of
> Lydia.
> ...
> Amasis assigned the commercial colony of Naucratis
> on the Canopic branch of the Nile to the
>
> Greeks
> ...
> It is said that it was during the reign of Ahmose
> II that Egypt attained its highest level of
>
> prosperity
> *******
>
> The Pythagoras stuff fits the context as well. He
> learned that stuff in Egypt.

Right ... I've made various attempts in this thread to get an answer to my query about sources, but you haven't replied to my questions.

I take it that you can't cite an Egyptian source or text to support your argument that (a) the Athenian kings were remembered in Egypt, and that (b) Pythagoras was as well. If such evidence had been forthcoming, it would certainly have thrown a whole new light on the tale of Atlantis, for which Plato is apparently the only ancient source.

On the question of a possible Egyptian connection for the tale, it was thought at one time that Crantor, a disciple of Plato's, might have travelled to Sais and seen the temple of Neith whose pillars were supposedly engraved with the tale of Atlantis: but it turns out that this belief arose from a mis-translated passage (Cameron, A., 1983, Crantor and Poseidonius on Atlantis, Classical Quarterly 3:1, 81-91: 82). So, as just mentioned, that leaves Plato as the only source of the story, with no corresponding reference in Egypt.

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