ABSTRACT
Timaeus, for instance, belongs to an admirably governed State, the Italian Locri, The constitution of Locri was attributed to Zaleucus. If Timaeus never existed, this would account for Platos choice of Locri for his native place. The whole cosmology of the Timaeus is only a preface to the legendary picture of the ideal state in action and to whatever were to have been the contents of the Hermocrates. Another motive for here anticipating the Atlantis story was suggested by Longinus. Isocrates is evidently aimed at as one who is on the borderline between philosophy and statesmanship and fails to make the best of either. what men who are both philosophers and statesmen would do and say in times of war, in the conduct of actual fighting or of negotiation. There remain only people of your condition, equipped by temperament and education for both philosophy and statesmanship.
