Timaeus and Critias

Author(s)

• Plato B.C.
• Lee, Henry Desmond Pritchard, Sir

Bibliographic Information

Timaeus and Critias

Plato ; translated with an introduction and an appendix on Atlantis by Desmond Lee

（Penguin classics）

Penguin Books, 1977

Reprinted with revisions

Uniform Title

Timaeus

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Taking the form of dialogues between Socrates, Timaeus, Critias and Hermocrates, these two works are among Plato's final writings. In Timaeus, he gives a thorough account of the world in which we live, describing a cosmos composed of four elements earth, air, fire and water which combine to give existence to all things. An exploration of the origins of the universe, life and humanity, which outlines not just physical laws but also metaphysical and religious principles, it remained a paradigm of science for two thousand years. The mysterious preamble to Timaeus contains the first account in literature of Atlantis, while the fragmentary Critias, unfinished by its author, provides a spellbinding description of the lost continent's ideal society, which Critias asserts was created by the god-like children of Poseidon himself.

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Details

• NCID: BA19450163
• ISBN:
  • 0140442618
• LCCN: 72180853
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: grc
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth
• Pages/Volumes: 167 p.
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B387.A5
  • DC : 113
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00305646