Plato’s Timaeus reports that an old Egyptian priest at Sais told Solon the Egyptians had records of earlier destructions of the world, by flood and fire. Proclus’s later commentary counts nine floods and six conflagrations—not six destructions in total. The meeting was at Sais, not Alexandria, and the passage records a priestly claim rather than independently verified Egyptian documentation. 📜🔥🌊
Plato reports a Sais priest telling Solon of floods and fires
Key facts
- In Plato's Timaeus, an old priest at Sais tells Solon of earlier destructions of the world by flood and fire.
- Proclus's later commentary gives the numbers as nine floods and six conflagrations; six was not the total number of destructions.
- The reported meeting took place at Sais, not Alexandria.
- The story is a Greek literary report of Egyptian priestly claims, not independently verified documentation of ancient catastrophes.
Sources
Plato Meets the Meteorite: Atlantis, Solon and Egyptstrangehistory.net
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Plato on Solon, the Egyptian priest, and Atlantis (mid-fourth ...philipharland.com
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Sonchis of Saisen.wikipedia.org
Sonchis of Saïs or the Saïte was an Egyptian priest, who is mentioned in Greek writings for relating the account of Atlantis. His status as a historical ...
Atlantis, the Antediluvian World: Part I: Chapter IIsacred-texts.com
the Egyptian priest had said to Solon, "You have no antiquity of history ... earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now, this has the form ...
[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]...goodreads.com
To this city came Solon, and was received there with great honour; he asked the priests who were most skilful in such matters, about antiquity.
Sonchis |atlantipedia.ie
Sonchis was the elderly Egyptian priest of Sais, who, according to Plutarch(a), related to Solon the story of Atlantis as recorded in their temple.
Plato's Critias - the story of Atlantis - Ascending Passageascendingpassage.com
Plato lived 400 years before the birth of Christ. His ancestor, Solon, was the great law-giver of Athens 600 years before the Christian era. Solon visited Egypt ...
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