Timaeus and Critias
by Plato, Gregory, Andrew, Waterfield, Robin, (Robin Anthony Herschel)
Timaeus and Critias (Oxford world's classics)
by Plato, Waterfield, Robin, Gregory, Andrew
Timaeus and Critias
by Plato, Plato, Gregory, Andrew
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
"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 astr…
Timaeus and Critias
by Plato, Plato, Waterfield, Robin, Gregory, Andrew
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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 cl…