For example, the address to the poets: 'Best of strangers, we also are poets of the best and noblest tragedy; for our whole state is an imitation of the best and noblest life, which we affirm to be indeed the very truth of tragedy.' Or again, the sight of young men and maidens in friendly intercourse with one another, suggesting the dangers to which youth is liable from the violence of passion; or the eloquent denunciation of unnatural lusts in the same passage; or the charming thought that the best legislator 'orders war for the sake of peace and not peace for the sake of war;' or the pleasant allusion, 'O Athenian—inhabitant of Attica, I will not say, for you seem to me worthy to be named after the Goddess Athene because you go back to first principles;' or the pithy saying, 'Many a victory has been and will be suicidal to the victors, but education is never suicidal;' or the fine expression that 'the walls of a city should be allowed to sleep in the earth, and that we should not attempt to disinter them;' or the remark that 'God is the measure of all things in a sense far higher than any man can be;' or that 'a man should be from the first a partaker of the truth, that he may live a true man as long as possible;' or the principle repeatedly laid down, that 'the sins of the fathers are not to be visited on the children;' or the description of the funeral rites of those priestly sages who depart in innocence; or the noble sentiment, that we should do more justice to slaves than to equals; or the curious observation, founded, perhaps, on his own experience, that there are a few 'divine men in every state however corrupt, whose conversation is of inestimable value;' or the acute remark, that public opinion is to be respected, because the judgments of mankind about virtue are better than their practice; or the deep religious and also modern feeling which pervades the tenth book (whatever may be thought of the arguments); the sense of the duty of living as a part of a whole, and in dependence on the will of God, who takes care of the least things as well as the greatest; and the picture of parents praying for their children—not as we may say, slightly altering the words of Plato, as if there were no truth or reality in the Gentile religions, but as if there were the greatest—are very striking to us.
Attica, the region around Athens, keeps surfacing in my research at the meeting point of flood legends, Atlantean kings and the Frisian priestess Min-erva.
Deucalion had children by Pyrrha: first Hellen, whose father some say was Zeus; and second Amphictyon, who reigned over Attica after Cranaus; and third a daughter, Protogeneia.
On The Deluge Legends of Other Nations the account he quotes ties the first Greek cataclysm to Ogyges, the most ancient of the kings of Boeotia or Attica, a quite mythical personage lost in the night of ages.
On The Gods of the Phoenicians also kings of Atlantis Donnelly reads the Phoenician legends as saying that Chronos gave Attica to his daughter Athena, as the Greek legends also tell.
Sandbach's translation dates Min-erva's arrival in Attica to about 1600 years before Christ, the period when Greek mythology was beginning to form.
On The Oera Linda Book Reviewed - placing the event in 6,115 BCE Min-erva examines the country called Attica and finds that the people were all goatherds, living on meat, wild roots, herbs and honey.
On Pallas Athena: High Priestess in the Temple of Truth I follow her arrival in Attica at the head of a Frisian colony with the fleet of the sea-king Jon.
On Mount Cithaeron the Cithaeron range forms the natural boundary between Boeotia and Attica.
For every page I tagged with Attica, see the Attica tag archive.
Deucalion had children by Pyrrha: first Hellen, whose father some say was Zeus; and second Amphictyon, who reigned over Attica after Cranaus; and third a daughter, Protogeneia."
Chronos gave Attica to his daughter Athena, as in the Greek legends.
He settled Attica and founded Athens, named after his niece Athena, daughter of Zeus, who had no mother, but had sprung from the head of Zeus, which probably signified that her mother's name was not known--she was a foundling.
And the same succession of destructions is referred to in the Greek legends, where a deluge of Ogyges--"the most ancient of the kings of Bœotia or Attica, a quite mythical person, lost in the night of ages"--preceded that of Deucalion.
The first was connected with the name of Ogyges, the most ancient of the kings of Bœotia or Attica--a quite mythical personage, lost in the night of ages, his very name seemingly derived from one signifying deluge in Aryan idioms, in Sanscrit Angha.
396), "to which the story of Atlantis refers, seems to have given rise to the Panathenæ, the oldest, greatest, and most splendid festivals in honor of Athena celebrated in Attica.
Ottema dates her arrival in Attica to “about 1600 years before Christ, the period at which the Grecian Mythology was beginning to be formed.” She came with the fleet of the sea-king Jon, at the head of a Frisian colony.
The book says the people of Attica were goatherds who lived on the slopes (hellinga) of the hills, so they were called Hellingers.
"Also when Kronos was traveling around the world, he gave the kingdom of Attica to his own daughter Athena.
Mount Cithaeron, also spelled Kithairon, is a mountain range in central Greece, forming the natural boundary between the regions of Boeotia and Attica.
Chronos gives Attica to his daughter Athena, and in a time of plague he sacrifices his son to Ouranos and "circumcised himself, and compelled his allies to do the same thing." Donnelly traces the rite back to Atlantis.