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The Ancient War of the Gods

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« on: February 10, 2009, 02:58:07 am »

I can think of a couple possible explanations and they both deal with when the accounts were written, The Mahabharata and Ramayana are far older than the Timaeus and Critias and were written perhaps shortly after the event took place. (The Mahabharata was written in the 6th millennium, and some new findings say that it’s even older than that)
  If Plato’s account is accurate then it itself says that it was written over 9000 years after the events took place. (Timaeus and Critias where written around 360 BC)
I would guess that when Plato told the story he was using terms and technology of his own time, hence the swords and shields.   Similarly Hesiod used magical and mystical terms to describe the war between the Titans and Olympians, like Zeus’s thunderbolts.
Also over long periods of time details do disappear, However the underlying story will survive if it’s memorable enough. I believe that is indeed what has happened here.

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