ABSTRACT
Alexander the Great built several great cities along the way from Pella, his birthplace in Hellenic Macedonia, to Punjab in Northern India, which marked the eastward limit of his campaign against the Persian Empire. This chapter concentrates on the roots rather than the branches, blossoms, and fruits of the tree of Platonism and of Hellenic Philosophy generally, in Egypt and in Northern Africa. But even to speak of a possible Egyptian connection in Ancient Hellenic philosophy is considered "anathema" by the prevailing scholarly opinion in the West. For the conventional European historiography, as practiced systematically claims rather dogmatically that the scientific method has set clearly marked and well-defined boundaries for the discipline of Hellenic philosophy, covering the period from Thales to Aristotle only. Accordingly, what the Hellenic genius had created before Thales of Miletus is assigned to "mythical account" as opposed to "rational account", which is considered as trademark of pure "rationality" in philosophy and science.
