/lit/ - Literature

>>16822455
>what is wrong with that claim?
it's utterly irrelevant, the philosopher is above the priest
>>16822455
>How do you know it?
Their unanimity of 'it' and the unparalleled virtue of their person (which your church fathers affirm), including their nigh 1-1 correspondence with bronze age Egyptian theology which they or anyone at the time couldn't read (the same with Mesopotamian myths), this shows both that the gods inspired both and that the tradition was far older than Plato, and this they openly proclaim proudly, for Plato was not the seed or roots of the seed but the stem of all wisdom; as well as parallels with much eastern lines. Parallel lines.
And the fact your beloved fathers copied from them, as much as they could, like looters in a store before the cops arrive, evinces their supremacy. Now that modern "philosophers" arrive and derive with slow brute force towards the same axioms of reality and thought that these divine men resolved also glaringly validate us.

>>16598485
>>16598632
This, then, explains the fact that the antiquities preserved here are said to
be the most ancient. The truth is that in all places where neither inordinate
cold nor heat prevent it, the human race will continue to exist, sometimes
in greater, sometimes in lesser numbers. Now of all the events reported
to us, no matter where they’ve occurred—in your parts or in ours—if there
are any that are noble or great or distinguished in some other way, they’ve
all been inscribed here in our temples and preserved from antiquity on.
In your case, on the other hand, as in that of others, no sooner have you
achieved literacy and all the other resources that cities require, than there
again, after the usual number of years, comes the heavenly flood. It sweeps
upon you like a plague, and leaves only your illiterate and uncultured
people behind. You become infants all over again, as it were, completely
unfamiliar with anything there was in ancient times, whether here or in
your own region. And so, Solon, the account you just gave of your people’s
lineage is just like a nursery tale. First of all, you people remember only
one flood, though in fact there had been a great many before. Second, you
are unaware of the fact that the finest and best of all the races of humankind
once lived in your region. This is the race from whom you yourself, your
whole city, all that you and your countrymen have today, are sprung,
thanks to the survival of a small portion of their stock. But this has escaped
you, because for many generations the survivors passed on without leaving
a written record. Indeed, Solon, there was a time, before the greatest of
these devastating floods, when the city that is Athens today not only
excelled in war but also distinguished itself by the excellence of its laws
in every area. Its accomplishments and its social arrangements are said to
have been the finest of all those under heaven of which we have re-
ceived report.’
“When Solon heard this he was astounded, he said, and with unreserved
eagerness begged the priests to give him a detailed, consecutive account
of all that concerned those ancient citizens. ‘I won’t grudge you this,
Solon,’ the priest replied. ‘I’ll tell you the story for your own benefit as
well as your city’s, and especially in honor of our patron goddess who
has founded, nurtured and educated our cities, both yours and ours. Yours
she founded first, a thousand years before ours, when she had received e
from Earth and Hephaestus the seed from which your people were to
come. Now our social arrangement, according to the records inscribed in
our sacred documents, is eight thousand years old. Nine thousand years
ago, then, did these fellow citizens of yours live, whose laws and whose
finest achievement I’ll briefly describe to you.