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Saqqara Sights

Philosophers' Circle

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Near the tomb of Akhethotep & Ptahhotep is a sad-looking group of Greek statues known as the Philosophers' Circle, which are arranged in a semicircle and sheltered by a spectacularly ugly concrete shelter. This is the remnant of a collection of philosophers and poets set up as a wayside shrine by Ptolemy I (305-285 BC) as part of his patronage of learning. From left to right are Plato, Heraclitus, Thales, Protagoras, Homer, Hesiod, Demetrius of Phalerum and Pindar.

 

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