The location of Atlantis is easy. It was Avaris. The why is a little harder because Plato's tale is a bit garbled.
The "bad guys" in the tale, were the Hyksos, ie. Rulers of Khaset(Xois).
The Goddess being discussed by Plato is not actually Athena... it's Artemis (Mistress of the Wild). She was also khown as Io. She was an 18th dynasty Queen named Aahotep II, married to her husband Serapis, who is an additional unknown pharoah at the top of the dynasty, identified as Ahmose Sipair. This pair is called Ge and Hephaestus by Plato.
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The Atlantis tale is a flashback to an earlier time. When? The tale is told to Solon by 2 Egyptian Priests, Sonchis of Sais and Psenophis of Heliopolis. This is important, because these 2 priest tell of 2 different cities, and Plato combines them.
The story is told in the days of Amasis(Ahmose II); Why was this pharoah named after someone who was dead for 900 years? That would have been one of the most popular topics of the day. Who was Ahmose I? And that's it... that is the basis for the story... to flashback from Ahmose II to Ahmose I, and talk about what it was like. Plato says this was 9000 years ago, but clearly there is a factor of 10 error. There are about 20 different context clues that point to Ahmose I timeframe. The size of the plain also exhibits this factor of 10 error. So Ahmose I is the timeframe.
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The Hyksos homecity was Saruhen/Sarhena. This city is mentioned in 2 other places in Greek Mythology, but with a slightly different name. Diodorus explicitly calls the homecity of the Atlantians, Kerne. Aeschylus refers to the Phoenecians who abducted Io as Karnites. So Kerne/Karne/Saruhen... is all the same city (s for k); probably Tartus, Syria; controlled by Amorites at the time.
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So Io founds a colony in Egypt, in Canopus (called Karbanis by Aeschylus). This is the city described by Sonchis of Sais (and also the home of Solon in Egypt)(he described what he saw). Thus colony lives in Egypt for 5 generations (it's actually the top 5 pharoahs whose wive's names match the Greek Equivalents).
Belus settles he sons Danaus and Egyptus in Libya(Canopus) and Arabia(Het-waret). Danaus=Tanaja(Greek Mainlanders) and Egyptus=Keftiu(Cretans). Egyptus is Amenhotep II, btw. Psenophis of Heliopolis described this second Cretan city, Het-waret/Aethyria... which was renamed to Atlantia after the Hyksos left; And Atlantia was the name of the wife of Danaus.
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The Atlantis tale continues. It talks about some God named Phaethon, who was the son of the sun. This son of the sun, fell off his chariot and drowned in the Nile; then he is mourned by his Heliade sisters. This is the Amarna period. Akhenaten is the Helios of the tale; Naerea, his wife, is Nefertiti. Exploring further, Meritaten=Merope. Smenkhkare=Clymenus(same letters). And Tut=Phaethon. His Amarna sisters who mourn are the Heliades.
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Unimportant: Somebody is going to ask, what about the pillars of Hercules? This is Heracles the Canopian(Egyptian Heracles). His pillars are renamed at some point to the Pillars of Proteus, as mentioned by Virgil in the Aenid. This would have been around Thonis, which is known for sinking later.
What about Gadir? Rhakotis was the old name for Alexandria. Plato's tale said the city was named after someone. Read as a theophoric name, the "Re" gets moved to the end. Rhakotis becomes Kotir (Greeks add s's). Rhakotis=Gadir.
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Two final quotes, one from Piny who explicitly tells us the location of Atlantis:
'And his remarks are to the following effect: Amosis, who lived in the time of the Argive Inachus, overthrew Athyria, as Ptolemy of Mendes [via Manetho] relates in his Chronology.' -- Clement of Alexandria 1.22
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"The whole of this country has successively had the names of Aetheria(Het-waret),727 Atlantia, and last of all, Aethiopia, from Aethiops, the son of Vulcan." -- Pliny 6.35.30
The "bad guys" in the tale, were the Hyksos, ie. Rulers of Khaset(Xois).
The Goddess being discussed by Plato is not actually Athena... it's Artemis (Mistress of the Wild). She was also khown as Io. She was an 18th dynasty Queen named Aahotep II, married to her husband Serapis, who is an additional unknown pharoah at the top of the dynasty, identified as Ahmose Sipair. This pair is called Ge and Hephaestus by Plato.
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The Atlantis tale is a flashback to an earlier time. When? The tale is told to Solon by 2 Egyptian Priests, Sonchis of Sais and Psenophis of Heliopolis. This is important, because these 2 priest tell of 2 different cities, and Plato combines them.
The story is told in the days of Amasis(Ahmose II); Why was this pharoah named after someone who was dead for 900 years? That would have been one of the most popular topics of the day. Who was Ahmose I? And that's it... that is the basis for the story... to flashback from Ahmose II to Ahmose I, and talk about what it was like. Plato says this was 9000 years ago, but clearly there is a factor of 10 error. There are about 20 different context clues that point to Ahmose I timeframe. The size of the plain also exhibits this factor of 10 error. So Ahmose I is the timeframe.
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The Hyksos homecity was Saruhen/Sarhena. This city is mentioned in 2 other places in Greek Mythology, but with a slightly different name. Diodorus explicitly calls the homecity of the Atlantians, Kerne. Aeschylus refers to the Phoenecians who abducted Io as Karnites. So Kerne/Karne/Saruhen... is all the same city (s for k); probably Tartus, Syria; controlled by Amorites at the time.
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So Io founds a colony in Egypt, in Canopus (called Karbanis by Aeschylus). This is the city described by Sonchis of Sais (and also the home of Solon in Egypt)(he described what he saw). Thus colony lives in Egypt for 5 generations (it's actually the top 5 pharoahs whose wive's names match the Greek Equivalents).
Belus settles he sons Danaus and Egyptus in Libya(Canopus) and Arabia(Het-waret). Danaus=Tanaja(Greek Mainlanders) and Egyptus=Keftiu(Cretans). Egyptus is Amenhotep II, btw. Psenophis of Heliopolis described this second Cretan city, Het-waret/Aethyria... which was renamed to Atlantia after the Hyksos left; And Atlantia was the name of the wife of Danaus.
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The Atlantis tale continues. It talks about some God named Phaethon, who was the son of the sun. This son of the sun, fell off his chariot and drowned in the Nile; then he is mourned by his Heliade sisters. This is the Amarna period. Akhenaten is the Helios of the tale; Naerea, his wife, is Nefertiti. Exploring further, Meritaten=Merope. Smenkhkare=Clymenus(same letters). And Tut=Phaethon. His Amarna sisters who mourn are the Heliades.
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Unimportant: Somebody is going to ask, what about the pillars of Hercules? This is Heracles the Canopian(Egyptian Heracles). His pillars are renamed at some point to the Pillars of Proteus, as mentioned by Virgil in the Aenid. This would have been around Thonis, which is known for sinking later.
What about Gadir? Rhakotis was the old name for Alexandria. Plato's tale said the city was named after someone. Read as a theophoric name, the "Re" gets moved to the end. Rhakotis becomes Kotir (Greeks add s's). Rhakotis=Gadir.
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Two final quotes, one from Piny who explicitly tells us the location of Atlantis:
'And his remarks are to the following effect: Amosis, who lived in the time of the Argive Inachus, overthrew Athyria, as Ptolemy of Mendes [via Manetho] relates in his Chronology.' -- Clement of Alexandria 1.22
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"The whole of this country has successively had the names of Aetheria(Het-waret),727 Atlantia, and last of all, Aethiopia, from Aethiops, the son of Vulcan." -- Pliny 6.35.30