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Author : Welliver
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004320539
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Character, plot and thought in Plato's Timaeus and Critias written by Welliver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plato
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191604992
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Timaeus and Critias written by Plato and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986471987
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Critias written by Plato and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critias Plato - Critias, one of Plato's late dialogues, recounts the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens, which failed due to the ordered society of the Athenians. In this short book "Critias", you will find very intense and meaningful dialogues of Critias, Timaeus, Socrates, and Hermocrates.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625581289
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Timaeus and Critias written by Plato and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Платон
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040831110
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Critias written by Платон and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plato
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781518684821
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Critias (Annotated) written by Plato and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was designed to be the second part of a trilogy, which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never completed. 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.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585108138
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Timaeus written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an ideal entrée for beginning readers and a solid text for scholars, the second edition of Peter Kalkavage's acclaimed translation of Plato's Timaeus brings enhanced accessibility to a rendering well known for its faithfulness to the original text. An extensive essay offers insights into the reading of the work, the nature of Platonic dialogue, and the cultural background of the Timaeus. Appendices on music, astronomy, and geometry provide additional guidance. A brief outline of the themes of the work, a detailed glossary, and a selected bibliography are also included.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625583893
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Critias written by Plato and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critias, one of Plato's late dialogues, contains the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens. Critias is the second of a projected trilogy of dialogues, preceded by Timaeus and followed by Hermocrates, though the latter was possibly never written and Critias was left incomplete.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140455043
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Timaeus and Critias written by Plato and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Western philosophy to c 500.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 158510504X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Timaeus written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Plato's dialogue concerning speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings. An extensive introduction provides careful insights to the reading of the work, the nature of Platonic dialogue and the cultural background of the Timaeus. Appendices on music, astronomy and geometry further provide guidance to the central thoughts of the dialogue. The glossary provides cross references and discussion for key words in the dialogue, functioning as springboards into the various concepts and ideas that are central to this and other Platonic dialogues and are useful starting points for any classroom discussion or personal thought. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.
Author : Gerald Alan Press
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847692194
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Who Speaks for Plato? written by Gerald Alan Press and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine a crucial premise of traditional readings of Plato's dialogues: that Plato's own philosophical dialogues can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and other leading characters. The text argues that no character should be read as Plato's mouthpiece.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Timaeus written by Plato and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OF all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The obscurity arises in the infancy of physical science, out of the confusion of theological, mathematical, and physiological notions, out of the desire to conceive the whole of nature without any adequate knowledge of the parts, and from a greater perception of similarities which lie on the surface than of differences which are hidden from view. Aeterna Press
Author : Christina Hoenig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108244939
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition written by Christina Hoenig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the development of Platonic philosophy at the hands of Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. It discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how these authors created new contexts and settings for the intellectual heritage they received and thereby contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism. It takes advantage of the authors' treatment of Plato's Timaeus as a continuous point of reference to illustrate the individuality and originality of each writer in his engagement with this Greek philosophical text; each chooses a specific vocabulary, methodology, and literary setting for his appropriation of Timaean doctrine. The authors' contributions to the dialogue's history of transmission are shown to have enriched and prolonged the enduring significance of Plato's cosmology.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781470100834
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Critias written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-02-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the authenticity of the following history should have been questioned by many of the moderns, is by no means surprising, if we consider that it is the history of an island and people that are asserted to have existed NINE THOUSAND years prior to Solon; as this contradicts the generallyreceived opinion respecting the antiquity of the world. However, as Plato expressly affirms, that it is a relation in every respect true, and, as Crantor, the first interpreter of Plato, asserts, 'that the following history was said, by the Egyptian priests of his time, to he still preserved inscribed on pillars, ' it appears to me to he at least as well attested as any other narration in any ancient historian. Indeed, he who proclaims that "truth is the source of every good both to Gods and men," and the whole of whose works consists in detecting error and exploring certainty, can never be supposed to have wilfully deceived mankind by publishing an extravagant romance as matter of fact, with all the precision of historical detail.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Critias written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was designed to be the second part of a trilogy, which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never completed. 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. The Critias is also connected with the Republic. Plato, as he has already told us (Tim.), intended to represent the ideal state engaged in a patriotic conflict. This mythical conflict is prophetic or symbolical of the struggle of Athens and Persia, perhaps in some degree also of the wars of the Greeks and Carthaginians, in the same way that the Persian is prefigured by the Trojan war to the mind of Herodotus, or as the narrative of the first part of the Aeneid is intended by Virgil to foreshadow the wars of Carthage and Rome. The small number of the primitive Athenian citizens (20,000), 'which is about their present number' (Crit.), is evidently designed to contrast with the myriads and barbaric array of the Atlantic hosts. The passing remark in the Timaeus that Athens was left alone in the struggle, in which she conquered and became the liberator of Greece, is also an allusion to the later history. Hence we may safely conclude that the entire narrative is due to the imagination of Plato, who has used the name of Solon and introduced the Egyptian priests to give verisimilitude to his story. To the Greek such a tale, like that of the earth-born men, would have seemed perfectly accordant with the character of his mythology, and not more marvellous than the wonders of the East narrated by Herodotus and others: he might have been deceived into believing it. But it appears strange that later ages should have been imposed upon by the fiction. As many attempts have been made to find the great island of Atlantis, as to discover the country of the lost tribes. Without regard to the description of Plato, and without a suspicion that the whole narrative is a fabrication, interpreters have looked for the spot in every part of the globe, America, Arabia Felix, Ceylon, Palestine, Sardinia, Sweden. - Taken from "Critias" written by Plato
Author : Russell E. Gmirkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000578429
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts written by Russell E. Gmirkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato’s famous account of the origins of the universe, mortal life and evil containing equal parts science, theology and myth. This book is the first to systematically compare biblical, Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato’s Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers. It argues that the idea of a monotheistic cosmic god was first introduced in Genesis 1 under the influence of Plato’s philosophy, and that this cosmic Creator was originally distinct from the lesser terrestrial gods, including Yahweh, who appear elsewhere in Genesis. It shows the use of Plato’s Critias, the sequel to Timaeus, in the stories about the Garden of Eden, the intermarriage of "the sons of God" and the daughters of men, and the biblical flood. This book confirms the late date and Hellenistic background of Genesis 1-11, drawing on Plato’s writings and other Greek sources found at the Great Library of Alexandria. This study provides a fascinating approach to Genesis that will interest students and scholars in both biblical and classical studies, philosophy and creation narratives. .
Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534613829
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Timaeus and Critias written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent edition combines the Platonic full length dialogue of Timaeus with Critias - an unfinished but important fragment in classical philosophy. Plato's Timaeus is a dialogue by the acclaimed Greek philosopher, wherein Timaeus is engaged by Socrates about a variety of topics. Often overlooked by scholars until the late Victorian era, this dialog nevertheless represents important developments in Plato's thought regarding human nature and the physical nature of the world and reality. Today it remains highly considered by scholars in Ancient Greek philosophy, despite the majority of the text being essentially a monologue. In this dialogue portions, Socrates and Timaeus discuss the nature of the physical world and of reality. The monologue portions are delivered by the titular Timaeus, who expostulates about the nature of the universe and of human existence to a receptive and thoughtful Socrates. Notably among the chapters is a discussion of the Four Elements which were an important aspect in Greek thinking about the universe. Timaeus puts forward the idea that each element has a specific shape in manifestation - For Fire, a tetrahedron, for Air an Octahedron, for Water an Icosahedron, and for Earth a cube. The significance of the shapes becomes clear: Plato, as Timaeus, proposes they interact with the universe by means of their shape and ratio. Plato's Critias is a fragment of another late period dialogue written in a similar tone to the Timaeus, to the point where scholars of antiquity regard the two as synonymous. The topic discussed by Critias, Timeaus, Socrates and Hermocrates is one of intense interest even today: the lost city of Atlantis. After introducing the world's earliest creation by the Gods, we hear that the magnificent Atlantis was given to Poseidon; the God of the Sea. The conversation proposes that after an initial period of holy alignment and splendour, the city of Atlantis had gradually become corrupted. Its citizenry came to lose their virtues and thus their alignment with the Gods. As a result, Zeus - the God of all Gods - commences to speak. At this point however, the dialogue is cut short - leaving scholars with an ancient cliffhanger story that, over two millennia later, has never been resolved. Translated by the highly regarded Oxford scholar Benjamin Jowett, this edition of Timaeus and Critias combines quality with inexpensiveness.
