From: "Eubulides"
Of course, they -and we- are all footnotes to Plato, who in turn was a footnote to Parmenides and Heraclitus who were footnotes to who knows...........
^^^^^^^ CB: According to Cheikh Anta Diop , in _Civilization and Barbarism_: An Authentic Anthropology_, an essay entitled " Does An African Philosophy Exist ? ", there are relationships between Egyptian and Platonic cosmogonies through the _Timaeus_, and with Aristotle's physics, with the Egyptian , of course, being prior.
He also says
"...the Heliopolitan cosmogony is essentially a philosophy of becoming, more than two thousand years before Heraclitus and all the Pre-Socratic philosophies.."
And
"The Platonic cosmogony is imbued with optimism as opposed to the Indo-European pessimism in general. This is obviously a heritage of the African school. During Strabo's time, the lodgings of former "pupils", Plato and Eudoxus, were being shown at Heliopolis, in Egypt, where they spent thirteen years studying different sciences, philosophy, etc. Every Greek initiate or pupil had to write a final paper on Egyptian cosmogeny and mysteries, irrespective of the curriculum that he had followed..."