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In his dialogues on Atlantis, Plato claims that Solon had translated the story from old Egyptian records, seeing as how Plato himself traveled to Egypt years earlier, could the story be inspired by other Egyptian stories like the Sea Peoples Invasions or the great flood in Genesis?

by /u/Blacksmith_Most in /r/AskHistorians

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