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Author : Welliver
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004320536
Author : Plato
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141920498
Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. Timaeus introduces the idea of a creator God and speculates on the structure and composition of the physical world. Critias, the second part of Plato’s dialogue, comprises an account of the rise and fall of Atlantis, an ancient, mighty and prosperous empire ruled by the descendents of Poseidon, which ultimately sank into the sea.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786940162
Originally published in 1980; Greek text retained from earlier edition, commentary updated, with new English translation and introduction.
Author : Платон
Publisher : Litres
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040831111
Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7BN5
Author : Plato
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191604997
'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos - the product of the rational thinking of a creator god and his astral assistants, and of purely mechanistic causes based on the behaviour of the four elements. At times dazzlingly clear, at times intriguingly opaque, this was state-of-the-art science in the middle of the fourth century BC. The world is presented as a battlefield of forces that are unified only by the will of God, who had to do the best he could with recalcitrant building materials. The unfinished companion piece, Critias, is the foundational text for the story of Atlantis. It tells how a model society became corrupt, and how a lost race of Athenians defeated the aggression of the invading Atlanteans. This new edition combines the clearest translation yet of these crucial ancient texts with an illuminating introduction and diagrams. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005574715
Author : Gijsbert Jonkers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004335202
In The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Gijsbert Jonkers presents a new examination of the medieval manuscripts of both Platonic dialogues, an overview of the ancient tradition and a vast collection of ancient testimonia.
Author : A E Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136234705
Plato’s Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people’s general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation of this important work, together with the Critias – the source of the legendary tale of Atlantis. He has taken particular care to provide an accurate rendering of Plato’s words and to avoid putting his own or any other interpretation on the works.
Author : John Francis Arundell (12th baron Arundell of Wardour.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590035142
Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044054144811
Author : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107320116
Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It tackles a wide range of interpretative and philosophical issues. Topics discussed include the function of the famous Atlantis story, the notion of cosmology as 'myth' and as 'likely', and the role of God in Platonic cosmology. Other areas commented upon are Plato's concepts of 'necessity' and 'teleology', the nature of the 'receptacle', the relationship between the soul and the body, the use of perception in cosmology, and the work's peculiar monologue form. The unifying theme is teleology: Plato's attempt to show the cosmos to be organised for the good. A central lesson which emerges is that the Timaeus is closer to Aristotle's physics than previously thought.
Author : A E Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136234699
Plato’s Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people’s general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation of this important work, together with the Critias – the source of the legendary tale of Atlantis. He has taken particular care to provide an accurate rendering of Plato’s words and to avoid putting his own or any other interpretation on the works.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Iap - Information Age Pub. Incorporated
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1609425170
Among all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The Critias is a fragment and it was designed to be the second part of a trilogy. Timaeus had brought down the origin of the world to the creation of man, and the dawn of history was now to succeed the philosophy of nature. It tells us about Atlantis and Critias returns to this story, professing only to repeat what Solon was told by the priests. The war of which he was about to speak had occurred 9000 years ago. One of the combatants was the city of Athens, the other was the great island of Atlantis.
Author : Dorothy Stephans
Publisher : n.p., n.d.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015004939982