Doubling in Classical Literature

In his well researched book, "Forgers and Critics," Speyer Grafton detailed some of the hidden forgeries in classical literature. Joe Atwill shared a similar view with Grafton in his book, "Caesar's Messiah," in which he wrote the following:

"The Jesus character in the gospels has all of these events in his life that come from the Old Testament. The story of Jesus describes Joseph going to Egypt, the pharaoh massacring the boys, then he returns from Egypt, gets baptized, and goes to the wilderness for 40 days and has his three temptations. In the Old Testament, in Genesis, Joseph goes to Egypt, the pharaoh massacres the boys, then he returns from Egypt to Israel, where there's a baptism. Then he goes into the wilderness for 40 years. When you see the pattern, it is all duplicity and fiction."

What Atwill described as duplicity is what I call doubling. In writing, it's called phantom doubling or an act of creating multiple copies of the same story. But, in acting, it's called role doubling or an act of casting one actor for multiple roles in one movie scene. 

Below are some of the phantom copies in classical literature. 

1. The story of the Trojan war is a phantom copy of the historical story of the crusade.

2. The story of Alexandria the Great is a phantom copy of the historical story of Mehmed II, the Great conqueror of Constantinople.

3. The story of Sampson in the Old Testament is a phantom copy of the story of Herakles in the Greek mythology, possibly written by the same author.

4. The story of Cain and Abel is a phantom copy of the story of Set and Osir in the Egyptian mythology, possibly written by the same author.

5. The story of Roman Empire in the West is a phantom copy of the historical story of Byzantium Rome.

6. The story of Genghis Khan is a phantom copy of the historical story of the Seljukian and Ottoman Turkish invaders of Western Asia and North Africa.

7. The story of Persia is a phantom copy of the historical story of the Sassanid empire of Iran. The former is biblical (fake); the latter is historical (real).

8. The story of Exodus in the Bible is a phantom copy of the story of the Hyksos in ancient Egypt.

9. The story of Moses, in the Bible, is a phantom copy of the story of Amenhotep the IV (Akhenaton) possibly written by the same author using the Egyptian epigraphs as a guide.

10. The stories of Homer, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle are phantom copies of the historical stories of Saint Omer, Gemisto Pletho, Socrates Scholasticus, and   georgios gennadios scholarios respectively.

11.The story of the fall of Jerusalem is a phantom copy of the historical story of the fall of the double-walled city of Constantinople.

12. Jesus was created as a phantom copy of Serapis, who, in turn, was created as a phantom copy of the mythological father, Osir (the Sun).

13.The stories of Jesus, Horus and Krishna 

are phantom copies of the same story written by the same author, using the Egyptian epigraphs as a guide.