Plato: Timaeus and Critias. Translated ... with Introductions and Notes on the Text by A.E. Taylor
Author: Plato
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Plato
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 136
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A E Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1136234691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlato’s Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people’s general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation of this important work, together with the Critias – the source of the legendary tale of Atlantis. He has taken particular care to provide an accurate rendering of Plato’s words and to avoid putting his own or any other interpretation on the works.
Author: A E Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1136234705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlato’s Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people’s general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation of this important work, together with the Critias – the source of the legendary tale of Atlantis. He has taken particular care to provide an accurate rendering of Plato’s words and to avoid putting his own or any other interpretation on the works.
Author: Plato
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-11-13
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780191539787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' 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. The unfinished companion piece, Critias, is the foundational text for the story of Atlantis. It tells how a model society became corrupt, and how a lost race of Athenians defeated the aggression of the invading Atlanteans. This new edition combines the clearest translation yet of these crucial ancient texts with an illuminating introduction and diagrams. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: Plato
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2015-01-02
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 158510504X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an English translation of Plato's dialogue concerning speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings. An extensive introduction provides careful insights to the reading of the work, the nature of Platonic dialogue and the cultural background of the Timaeus. Appendices on music, astronomy and geometry further provide guidance to the central thoughts of the dialogue. The glossary provides cross references and discussion for key words in the dialogue, functioning as springboards into the various concepts and ideas that are central to this and other Platonic dialogues and are useful starting points for any classroom discussion or personal thought. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.
Author: William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-04-24
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521311021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume Professor Guthrie continues and completes his account of Plato's philosophy.
Author: Plato
Publisher:
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 249
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Denis O'Brien
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9004320636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Platon
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 249
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