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" Timaeus and Critias / "
Plato ; translated by Robin Waterfield ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Gregory.
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BL
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102798
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b60014
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GBA8A4930
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Timaeus.English.
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Plato.
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Timaeus and Critias /\ Plato ; translated by Robin Waterfield ; with an introduction and notes by Andrew Gregory.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, c2008.
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Oxford world's classics.
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ixviii, 163 p. :: ill. ;; 20 cm.
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9780192807359
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: 0192807358
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [lx]-Ixviii)
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| Contents
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Timaeus -- Critias.
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"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.
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Cosmology, Early works to 1800.
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Atlantis (Legendary place)
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113
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B387.A5W37 2008
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Waterfield, Robin.
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Gregory, Andrew.
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Plato.
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