Would you rather believe that Plato was just kidding that the kings Erectheus, Cecrops, Erysichthon, Theseus, and Erichthonios lived in the timeframe circa 1400 b. c. that Atlantis and much of Greece were consumed by the sea, or that the flooding occurred actually about 10,000 years before his time (“9,000 years before Solon’s time”), those kings thereby falsely reported having lived when the flooding (the end of the Ice Age) occurred? The same flooding is described in other greek legends as the Flood of Ogyges and of Dardanus, both historical kings commonly acknowledged to have lived in that timeframe too, the beginning of the “bronze age collapse,” also known as the Heroic Age when population pressures were greatly increased by land lost to the sea and much decreased rainfall.
