Timaeus and Critias / Plato ; translated by Robin Waterfield ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Gregory.

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Plato [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description
lxviii, 163 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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    Oxford world's classics
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    Summary note
    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [lx]-lxviii).
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    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Timaeus
    • Critias.
    ISBN
    9780192807359
    LCCN
    ^^2008027751
    OCLC
    226360100
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    H - S
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