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Timaeus and Critias / Plato ; translated by Robin Waterfield ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Gregory.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plato.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics.
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Timaeus. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmology--Early works to 1800.
- Cosmology.
- Atlantis (Legendary place).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Timaeus Plato attempts to describe and explain the structure of the universe: the creator god, the elements, the lower gods, the stars, and men. The companion piece, Critias, is the origin of the story of Atlantis, the lost empire defeated by ancient Athenians. This is the clearest translation yet of these crucial ancient texts. - ;'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 brill
- Contents:
- Timaeus
- Critias.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 18, 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [lx]-Ixviii).
- Contains:
- Plato. Critias. English
- ISBN:
- 0-19-187511-2
- 1-281-99864-8
- 9786611998646
- 0-19-153978-3
- OCLC:
- 373185469
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