Dialogue

 1 Intro|       greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The
 2 Intro|         this is the spirit of the ancient physical philosopher. He
 3 Intro|     breathe the atmosphere of the ancient philosopher, or understand
 4 Intro|         we are well aware that an ancient philosopher is to be interpreted
 5 Intro|       home, Critias told us of an ancient tradition, which I wish,
 6 Intro|          The narrative related to ancient famous actions of the Athenian
 7 Intro|        caste of priests among the ancient Athenians, and another of
 8 Intro|         city and citizens and the ancient Athenian State. But I would
 9 Intro|           earth’s surface. To the ancient physics they stood much
10 Intro|   civilisations in the world more ancient than that of Hellas.~The
11 Intro|          than that of Hellas.~The ancient philosophers found in mythology
12 Intro|          crude use of analogy the ancient physical philosopher would
13 Intro|           words sometimes led the ancient philosopher to make corresponding
14 Intro|        more illusion to which the ancient philosophers were subject,
15 Intro|  abstractions; but to some of the ancient philosophers this little
16 Intro|          and also a puzzle to the ancient thinker (Rep.). They were
17 Intro|           us in the use which the ancient philosophers made of numbers.
18 Intro|         which the lively fancy of ancient thinkers almost necessarily
19 Intro|         things as in a dream.~The ancient physical philosophers have
20 Intro|      misleading way of describing ancient science. It is the mistake
21 Intro|     disparage the speculations of ancient philosophers, they seem
22 Intro|      which is often urged against ancient philosophers is really an
23 Intro|            hardly even a name, in ancient Greek philosophy. To this
24 Intro|         good in the Republic. The ancient mythologers, and even the
25 Intro|         majority of commentators, ancient as well as modern, are inclined
26 Intro|      mandates. In this region, as ancient superstition told, were
27 Intro|      distemper or possession. The ancient saying, that ‘only a man
28 Intro| speculations of Plato either with ancient or modern medicine. What
29 Intro|     physics of the Timaeus, or in ancient physics generally, as that
30 Intro| exclusively on the absurdities of ancient ideas about science, on
31 Intro|           a priori assumptions of ancient teachers, on their confusion
32 Intro|         He does not consider that ancient physical philosophy was
33 Intro|       these volumes the errors of ancient physicists were not separable
34 Intro|   mathematical knowledge. But the ancient philosopher never experimented:
35 Intro|         that the most fanciful of ancient philosophies is also the
36 Intro|         and the remark applies to ancient physics generally— this
37 Intro|          fanciful way in which an ancient biographer dresses up the
38 Intro|          a note in the text of an ancient writer is a literary curiosity
39 Intro|          had somewhere existed an ancient primitive civilization.
40 Intro|         the Island of Atlantis in ancient and modern times. It is
41 Intro|         sufficient discrimination ancient authors having very different
42 Intro|           this hope was nursed by ancient tradition, which had found
43 Timae|           over, and he told us an ancient tradition, which I wish,
44 Timae|       Very good. And what is this ancient famous action of the Athenians,
45 Timae|      began to tell about the most ancient things in our part of the
46 Timae|          handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science
47 Timae|       preserved here are the most ancient. The fact is, that wherever
48 Timae|       nothing of what happened in ancient times, either among us or
49 Timae|          reality. It shall be the ancient city of Athens, and we will
50 Timae|           your republic are these ancient Athenians. Let us divide
51 Timae|        words which he utters; the ancient saying is very true, that ‘