Lucio Russo Quote

From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist … is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. … Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?

7.6, "The Figurative Arts, Literature and Music", p. 228 - The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn (2004)