Message #166789

[Qoais]

Lake Tritonis was a salt marsh where the Amazons lived.  Herodotus says that the Amazons lived on an island as did the Atlantians, however, he also said that one could walk to the islands.  In other words, the water was shallow enough to be able to walk across.  This explains how the Amazons could live on an island and yet attack their neighbors - the Atlantians, who were also on an island, and then work their way eastward across Libya etc. etc.  It's the word island that causes the problem, but if we realize they didn't know what was west beyond Tunis, it makes sense.  If we accept that it could be an inland island, that's even better.  They think that the whole of Western Africa -beyond Tunis - is an island.