The Timaeus, and the Critias
or, Atlanticus
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Author
Contributions
- Taylor, Thomas, 1758-1835 - Contributor
- Taliaferro, R. Catesby (Robert Catesby), 1907-1989 - Contributor
Publication
1952-08-01 - Pantheon Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
62,250 words, Guess
Page Count
249 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetimaeuscritiasor0000plat
- OCLC Control Number1150296037
- Open LibraryOL28413981M
Classifications
- LCCB387.A5 T35
Alternate Titles
- Critias
- Atlanticus
Description
"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 astral assistants, and of purely mechanistic causes based on the behaviour of the four elements. At times dazzlingly clear, at times intriguingly opaque, this was state-of-the-art science in the middle of the fourth century BC. The world is presented as a battlefield of forces that are unified only by the will of God, who had to do the best he could with recalcitrant building materials"--Cover, p. 4.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Bollingen series -- 3
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