Timaeus and Critias

by Plato, Robin Waterfield, Andrew Gregory

Overview

Timaeus is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings. It is followed by the dialogue Critias. Critias, one of Plato's late dialogues, it 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192807359
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2009
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	515,652
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

Robin Waterfield has translated numerous classics texts for OWC, including Plato's Republic, Synposium, Gorgias, and Phaedrus, The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and the Sophists,, Aristotle's Physics, Herodotus' Histories, Plutarch and Euripides. In addition to Plato's Philosophy of Science,
Andrew Gregory is the author of Harvey's Heart (Icon, 2000) and Eureka! the Birth of Science (Icon, 2001). His book Ancient Greek Cosmogony is published by Duckworth in December 2007.