Timaeus and Critias
$25.59
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2009
Summary
‘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 ti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192807359 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0192807358 |
| Author: | Plato, Robin Waterfield, Andrew Gregory |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
You Can Find This Book In
About The Author
Plato
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.
Andrew Gregory is the author of Harvey’s Heart and Eureka! the Birth ofScience. His book Ancient Greek Cosmogony is published by Duckworth.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.