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Critias
Plato
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This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed the story to be true. Critias, a friend of Socrates, and uncle of Plato was infamous as one of the bloody thirty tyrants.
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed the story to be true. Critias, a friend of Socrates, and uncle of Plato was infamous as one of the bloody thirty tyrants.
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Fun, especially considering this was the cutting edge science of 400 BC. The stars are living beings, your head is round because it models the universes, you’re probably depressed and confused because your soul isn’t aligned with the universal soul. Your liver is black and shiny because it is a scre
1.5 idk. Breaking: once again an annoying old white man (plato) is wrong about everything (the creation of the universe) and yet I’m still forced to read it (professors stop sucking plato off challenge!)
I don't believe there are words that can do justice to any of Plato's writings. I'll say one thing, though: the platonic dialogue of Timaeus and its story about Atlantis was one of the most pivotal nudges I got towards becoming a novelist.
If you're not into philosophy and Greek philosophy at that, i
I enjoy Plato, and this was the first of his works that I really got familiar with. The story of Atlantis is fascinating. Of course, being Plato, some patience is required while reading this, but it is rewarding I think and well worth the struggles and rereading that is sometimes required. Just a he
The best part of this is reading the what-ifs of Atlantis :D
Timaeus of Locri, in real life, may have been a Pythagorean philosopher of the 5th century B.C. – or maybe he was just a literary character invented by Plato. Critias seems to have been a relative of Plato’s, though scholars are not quite sure just how he was related to Plato. But be all that as it
In this introduction to my copy of the Timaeus, Benjamin Jowett says: “Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader”—and he is, unfortunately, correct. This dialogue was very tiresome to read, and it was only through force of will and a few long tra