Introduction

i points out that relatively wealthy societies have always been the fertile soil in which philosophy has flourished. By the time of augustus caesar, the romans already held sway over modern day france and spain,. parts of germany, greece, asia minor and northern africa. Rome itself played host to many a philosopher, including those who spoke and wrote in greek. Alexandria, on the coast of egypt, founded by its namesake alexander the great, built up into a cultural hub under the ptolemies during the hellenistic age.