so, i ended up finishing the Timaeus and Critias book a lot sooner than i expected
turned out that after the text of Timaeus, there is like 150 pages of inane, scholarly commentary over the clearly glossed over summary of the science of medicine, which was a huge part of what Timaeus covered, and of biology and physics...
clearly, in my view, the fragmentary remnants of a science long ago mostly forgotten by humans
and so i leafed through, looking and looking "ok so where is more of this Timaeus?" and eventually nearly at the end of this ~400 page hardback, i find the start of Critias
Critias was fascinating... it starts by describing the great central capital of the civilization of Atlantis, and the massive earthworks and extensive, epically beautiful architecture of the buildings covered in gold, silver and copper, and all kinds of amazing stoneworks and waterworks
it then, in less detail, describes the provincial parts of this ancient nation, presumably spreading out to the east in the direction of what is now egypt, and described, very thinly, some of the customs of this culture, which was extremely well developed in technology, martial prowess, and land-based but waterway driven market economy, and hints at a few of their traditions that led to probably thousands of years of progress
it also asserts that the timing of this civilisation's existence was about 9000 years before the time of plato
sadly, just as it starts to get interesting, the beginnings of the hints of the breakdown of the society, and the coming of massive natural disasters, and a war, and then it trails off with "the rest has been lost"
fortunately there is other fragments that were recorded from other places, but there is zero doubt in my mind that not only was there a great nation largely based around the now desert region of north africa, with its capital on the atlantic coast now known as Mauritania, but that the entire history of our species dating from around 7000 years ago is all about the "winners" of the war that it starts to talk about, who obviously are now at the zenith of their influence, in this corrupted, disgusting social malaise that we see now around us
so, next i'm reading The Book of Jubilees, which will tell some of that history i'm craving to read more about in more detail, before i dig into two versions of Enoch that i haven't read before, plus a refresher on the one i have read
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