Atlantis

 Maju and Herr the only problem with  both your theories is the land is  still  there, where as Plato said this land  sank into the soil and the sea .Tartesso and Mainke are yet to found.

Herr did the egyptain know where the pillers were in 600bc when the story was recorded?

600bc

 The Egyptian Pharaoh Necho commissioned Semitic-Phoenician mariners to voyage round Africa.  Three years later they returned to report that the continent is surrounded by sea except at the point in Egypt where it joins Asia.

The Egyptians in 600 B.C. recorded the existence of Atlantis.  This alleged myth was passed down through Solon to Plato who recorded it in 400 B.C.  An epochal flood is believed to have swallowed up Atlantis

And why would you say the tartesso was not a empire when Herdoutus writes .

King Arganthonios ruled Tartessia for 80 years, His empire consisted of all of Andaluc�a and extended to the Cabo de la Nao (a cape east of the Costa Blanca, south of the Gulf of Valencia). His empire was what may possibly have attracted Greek colonists to the Spanish coast. One of those colonies was Mainake, present-day M�laga. Though the capital of Tartessia sank in the mouth of the swampy Guadalquivir River (and now is famously thought to have been Atlantis),

I think this is where people get confuse, the Phoenicans were from Cannon .Where as the Phocaeans were Greeks from Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocaeans.

opps sorry, I guess this isn`t Turkey, but Greece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocaeans

These are all Bronze Age kings. You think that the war referred to by the Egyptians is that of Alalia. How did Cecrops, Erechtheus, and Erichthonius figure into the battle of Alalia?

This I infer because Solon said that the priests in their narrative of that war mentioned most of the names which are recorded prior to the time of Theseus, such as Cecrops, and Erechtheus, and Erichthonius, and Erysichthon, and the names of the women in like manner.

 Simple, the names of Tartesso`s kings were  recorded before the kings of Athens.  Plato`s twins. All these kings and their desendants for many generations ruled over the diver islands.

you do not know that there formerly dwelt in your land the fairest and noblest race of men which ever lived, and that you and your whole city are descended from a small seed or remnant of them which survived. And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving no written word.

 The dark ages.

The early history of Phocis remains quite obscure.How come there is no mention of the phocis in the  600 bc war of  Alalia,  only by Herodutus?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocaeans.

http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/history3.html

The Phocian League is last heard of under Trajan.  Remember that mysterious painting of a city found in the baths of trajan

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9805/27/italy.mystery.map/