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Plutarch gives a more detailed description on the Greek philosophers who visited Egypt and received advice by the Egyptian priests in his book On Isis and Osiris. Thus, Thales of Miletus , Eudoxus of Cnidus , Solon , Pythagoras , (some say Lycurgus of Sparta also) and Plato , traveled into Egypt and conversed with the priests.
According to Plutarch, he spent some time and discussed philosophy with two Egyptian priests, Psenophis of Heliopolis and Sonchis of Sais. [35] A character in two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias , claims Solon visited Neith 's temple at Sais and received from the priests there an account of the history of Atlantis .
In Plato's Timaeus and Critias (around 395 BC, 200 years after the visit by the Greek legislator Solon), Sais is the city in which Solon receives the story of Atlantis, its military aggression against Greece and Egypt, its eventual defeat and destruction by gods-punishing catastrophe, from an Egyptian priest. Solon visited Egypt in 590 BC.
thekhereb-priests, who read incantatory formulas from the Book of the Dead; [9] The priests-paraschists, or incisors, who remove the viscera during mummification; priests-taricheutes, who are the real embalmers; priest-colchytes, who help with all embalming operations; The astronomer-priest, who determines the right moment to launch the ceremonies;
Critias also cites the Egyptian priest in Sais about long-term factors on the fate of mankind: There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes.
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Calliope at the center, and clockwise from top: Socrates, Chilon, Pittacus, Periander, Cleobulus (damaged section), Bias, Thales, and Solon. The Seven Sages or Seven Wise Men was the title given to seven philosophers, statesmen, and law-givers of the 7th–6th centuries BCE who were renowned for their wisdom.
The asceticism especially, which he ascribes to the ancient Egyptian priests, is analogous to the description in Philo's work, "De Vita Contemplativa"; still there is no literary connection between the two authors. [6] Fragments of the "History of Egypt" may still exist in a treatise of Psellus published in 1877. [7] [5]