Sodom and Gomorrah

[atalante]

3 hours ago, Pettytalk said:

Before Plato, apart from Herodotus and his Histories, there seems to be no other sources for making the association of Athena to Neith, and vice versa.

 

Why the Egyptian Delta? And where is the Biblical connection?

Pettytalk,

Aeschylus (ca 480 BCE) wrote two plays about this (Danaids) theme that connects Athena and Neith  :  The Suppliants; and Amymone.

Edited October 17, 2023 by atalante

[+Pettytalk]

3 hours ago, atalante said:

Pettytalk,

Aeschylus (ca 480 BCE) wrote two plays about this (Danaids) theme that connects Athena and Neith  :  The Suppliants; and Amymone.

Can you provide page and paragraph?

[Abramelin]

6 minutes ago, Pettytalk said:

Can you provide page and paragraph?

There are some here who suffer from 'posting-links-anxiety'.

[atalante]

2 hours ago, Pettytalk said:

Can you provide page and paragraph?

This should be adequate.  The information is widely known.  

https://www.jstor.org/stable/629361

[+Pettytalk]

13 hours ago, atalante said:

This should be adequate.  The information is widely known.  

https://www.jstor.org/stable/629361

It's not adequate, as I don't have an account with JSTOR. I read the preview page, but it has no mention or hint on the association of Athena with Neith. Since you initially stated that the association was mentioned by Aeschylus in two of his plays; The Suppliants and Amymone, I assumed you had read the plays, and noted the clear association. That was the reason I asked you to provide the page and paragraph.

Now you are basically providing a link to an article written in 1957 by  A. Diamantopoulos, The Danaid Tetralogy of Aeschylus. Then I must assume that you never read those two plays, or if you did, there are no direct mention of Athena and Neith being one and the same. Apparently, if you are still maintaining that Aeschylus made the association, you must have gotten the information from this article you have linked. Then, please, be so kind as to provide where in the article, specifically, the association is made, and which leads back to Aeschylus?  You can take a picture of the applicable text, and it will suffice. 

[Piney]

16 hours ago, Abramelin said:

There are some here who suffer from 'posting-links-anxiety'.

@Harte caught it while fishing in a stream next to a military chemical plant and it's apparently highly contagious. 

[+Pettytalk]

15 minutes ago, Piney said:

@Harte caught it while fishing in a stream next to a military chemical plant and it's apparently highly contagious. 

Military chemical plants? What kind bait were you using on your hook?

Now that you are here, and hopefully you have had your caffeine fix, enlighten me, if you can on this association of the Egyptian goddess Neith with Athena. Now I'm not even certain Herodotus made mention of it in his Histories. 

[Piney]

3 minutes ago, Pettytalk said:

Military chemical plants? What kind bait were you using on your hook?

Now that you are here, and hopefully you have had your caffeine fix, enlighten me, if you can on this association of the Egyptian goddess Neith with Athena. Now I'm not even certain Herodotus made mention of it in his Histories. 

Most of what I knew of Herodotus' writings was removed with my stroke. I don't know anything about a connection between Neith and Athena. If I remember correctly Athena started out as a Minoan palace goddess, but I could be wrong. 

[Antigonos]

18 minutes ago, Pettytalk said:

 

Now that you are here, and hopefully you have had your caffeine fix, enlighten me, if you can on this association of the Egyptian goddess Neith with Athena. Now I'm not even certain Herodotus made mention of it in his Histories. 

Classical authors attesting that Greeks widely recognized Neith as the Egyptian equivalent of Athena:
 

Herodotus (2.62)

Diodorus Sicilus (5.58)

Plato (Timeus 21e)

Pausanias (2.36)

Plutarch (On Isis and Osiris 9/354C).

The writings have been confirmed by archaeology.

[Abramelin]

39 minutes ago, Piney said:

Most of what I knew of Herodotus' writings was removed with my stroke. I don't know anything about a connection between Neith and Athena. If I remember correctly Athena started out as a Minoan palace goddess, but I could be wrong. 

I assume you meant this:

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/362695-the-phoenicians-atlantis-and-the-richat-structure/page/10/#comment-7603706

 

[Thanos5150]

3 hours ago, Antigonos said:

Classical authors attesting that Greeks widely recognized Neith as the Egyptian equivalent of Athena:
 

Herodotus (2.62)

Diodorus Sicilus (5.58)

Plato (Timeus 21e)

Pausanias (2.36)

Plutarch (On Isis and Osiris 9/354C).

The writings have been confirmed by archaeology.

2 seconds:

The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) noted that the Egyptian citizens of Sais in Egypt worshipped Neith. The Greeks sought to draw a syncretic relationship to associate Egyptian deities with those of Greece. They identified Neith with Athena. The Timaeus, a dialogue written by Plato, mirrors that identification with Athena, possibly as a result of the identification of both goddesses with war and weaving.^[12]

 

 

[The Puzzler]

20 hours ago, Thanos5150 said:

2 seconds:

The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) noted that the Egyptian citizens of Sais in Egypt worshipped Neith. The Greeks sought to draw a syncretic relationship to associate Egyptian deities with those of Greece. They identified Neith with Athena. The Timaeus, a dialogue written by Plato, mirrors that identification with Athena, possibly as a result of the identification of both goddesses with war and weaving.^[12]

 

 

I was going to mention this part by Herodotus….”the Greeks” as a whole…not just Plato.