>>22036450>muh greeksGreece was forged from the remnants of earlier civilizations and wandering tribes like Pelasgians, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Achaeans, Trojans, lonians, Dorians, and heaven knows who else each of whom brought their own traditions into that IndoEuropean melting pot that has become known as Greek history and Classical mythology.
the Greek gods were identical to the known planetary deities of other, and older, races with whom the Greeks came in contact and from whom they borrowed much of their cosmological and cosmogonical lore.
this knowledge, as per Aristotle, had to be reaffirmed was due to a multitude of factors , the least of which not being the "forgetting" of cosmic history by the Greek nation.
When Solon visited Egypt, he was informed that:
>"neither he nor any other Hellene knew anything worth mentioning about the times of old."He was told that:
>"there is no old opinion handed down among you [Greeks] by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age."The Greeks, according to the Egyptian sages, knew "nothing of what happened in ancient times" and this, supposedly, was due to the survivors of previous natural catastrophes who, for whatever reason, had left "no written record" behind them.
