An Egyptian priest told the Greeks they were “always children”

In Plato's Timaeus, an Egyptian priest at Saïs tells the Athenian lawgiver Solon that Egypt's temple records reach back thousands of years, then declares: “O Solon, Solon, you Greeks are always children; there is no such thing as an old Greek.” The people we call the ancient Greeks felt young beside a civilization they saw as vastly older than themselves.

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