Lover Of Ancient Wisdom Gifts

'Oh-oh - Here comes that dirty old philosopher again.'

Archimedes statue with a lever

Fertility goddess. Nanny goddess.

Julius is writing a memoir of his youth, but doesn't know what to call it. "Caesar's Salad Days"!

'You can come down a peg. Mesopotamia gave the world bureaucracy, you know.'

"I'm having my entrails read."

"Yes, but this one is made of Chiclets."

Sharing the Bed with Zeno

'These sure rule out a lot of options....'

"Aristophanes explains comedy"

"Is it (eye symbol) before (water symbol) or (water symbol) before (eye symbol)?"

Mummy Tourist

'Hi, I'm middle-age and I'll be hanging around a while.'

'Of course, this social contract will have to remain hypothical until someone invents writing.'

Down With Wikipedia

PHARMACY, 'Tell Hippocrates to write his prescriptions in Greek -- I can't read Babylonian!'

'He was a Stoic's Stoic.'

The Unknown Philosopher, who first realised life is no picnic.

'It appears to be a kosher for Passover recipe.'

Park and Ride dilema

"Heads-up, the tourists are coming."

'What I especially like about being a philosopher-scientist is that I don't have to get my hands dirty.'

Mass Confucian

Stonehenge Books

Why don't we invite Hypothesis? It's always a good idea to have an educated guest… Party List. Mesomides. Loxias. Anaximenes. Thales.

"I'm collecting everyday objects for a time capsule."

Galileo vs Aristotle

'The 20th century wasn't bad, but I preferred the 19th. I'm open minded for the 21st.'

Hypatia

"Is this going to be on the midterm?"

"Hunters turned philosophers"

Greek Mathematics. Archimedes. Euclid. Pythagoras. The ancient Greeks didn't have a symbol for zero? The left "nothing" to the imagination.

Socrates does lunch

Stoics vs. Epicureans.

Socrates