Hermione:
> Plato disagrees with you on that one. He says (as I explained in my previous post) that the > nature of the Atlantians degenerated over time. Still, what did Plato know ..
Rich:
> Correct. That is my argument. Plato screwed up
> the story on that point.
You're forgetting that Plato
invented the story of Atlantis, and should therefore surely be allowed any author's right to choose the details for his own story. If you've found evidence that this wasn't the case, you would have to produce it and explain it properly - which, so far, you haven't succeeded in doing. As far as I can make out, you appear (like so many others) to be trying to find a geographical and historical location for Atlantis, and seem to think that you can do this by discarding any details of Plato's that don't happen to suit your hypothesis, and by trying to ram various discrete elements of Greek and Egyptian mythology and history into it instead.
> Just like his factor of
> 10 error, which appears multiple times. Let's say
> the Hyksos(Foreign Rulers) were the people who
> were the bad guys that degenerated over time. And
> they were replaced by the Greeks(Tanaja), the
> Atlantians who were the good guys. It's not very
> friendly for a priest to name their former
> enemies. That's what I'm saying. Plato messed up.
> He inserted a name where it didn't belong.
> Change that one name out, and then it becomes a
> friendship myth, and the Pythagoras stuff makes
> sense. That was my BRILLIANT EPIPHANY.
You seem to have forgotten - or completely ignored - the fact that Plato was a philosopher with an agenda. He was concerned about what was going to happen to contemporary Athens: hence the parable of Atlantis. As I said above, if you've found evidence that this was not the case, then, etc. etc.
> Atlas is one of the 3
> great descendants of Greece. His people can't be
> the bad guys.
You're forgetting that the Titan Atlas who holds up the sky is a different Atlas from the one who ruled Atlantis. They have different parents. The Titan Atlas was the son of Iapetus and Asia. According to Plato, King Atlas of Atlantis was a mortal son of Poseidon and Cleito. Or did Plato get
that wrong as well?
> This point was addressed to Byrd on
> Sept 6(page 1).
It might have been helpful to provide a link. I can't find any post mentioning Atlas dated 6th September from you in answer to Byrd.
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