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Tarrant, Harold. "On Hastily Declaring Platonic Dialogues Spurious: the Case of Critias." Méthexis 31, no. 1 (2019): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680974-03101003.

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This paper takes issue with the thesis of Rashed and Auffret that the Critias that has come down to us is not a genuine dialogue of Plato. Authors do not consider the style of the Critias, which should be a factor in any complete study of authorship. It observes the widespread consensus that the style of the Timaeus and Critias are virtually inseparable. It surveys a wide range of stylistic studies that have tended to confirm this, before answering a possible objection that cites the similarity of style between the genuine Laws and Philip of Opus’ Epinomis. Since the main argument used by Rashed and Auffret relies on an inconsistency between Timaeus and Critias consideration is given to the types of inconsistency found within Platonic dialogues and sequences of dialogues, particularly the hiatus-avoiding dialogues including Timaeus itself and Laws. Finally, alternative explanations of the alleged inconsistency are offered.
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Stegman, Casey. "Remembering Atlantis." Political Theory 45, no. 2 (2016): 240–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591715594661.

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There has been much scholarly disagreement concerning Plato’s participation in the mid-fourth century debates over Athens’s ancestral constitution ( patrios politeia). This disunity stems from contrasting views about the relationship between philosophy and Athenian politics in Plato’s writings. Recently, several political theorists have reoriented our general understanding about Plato’s complex involvement with Athenian politics. However, these discussions do not discuss Plato’s specific relationship with patrios politeia. In order to bridge this gap, I turn to two dialogues within the later Platonic corpus: Timaeus and Critias. By examining the Atlantis myth that spans both dialogues, I discuss how Plato uses the story both to comment on and critique the democratic Athenian constitution. At the same time, however, Plato also advances a unique veneration of democracy by asserting that it is the politeia of the gods. In this way, I argue that Timaeus-Critias contributes a valuable new perspective in the ongoing debate regarding the relationship between Plato’s philosophy and democracy.
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Buzzetti, Eric. "Plato Through Homer: Poetry and Philosophy in the Cosmological Dialogues." Canadian Journal of Political Science 37, no. 3 (2004): 775–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423904420101.

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Plato Through Homer: Poetry and Philosophy in the Cosmological Dialogues, Zdravko Planinc, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003, pp. xii, 134Professor Planinc analyzes in this monograph three of Plato's dialogues: the Timaeus, the Critias and the Phaedrus. His primary aim is to show that their structure and poetic imagery is modelled after that of important episodes of Homer's Odyssey. In Planinc's words, Plato consciously “refigures” the “literary tropes” of the Odyssey, and this fact is of central importance to interpreting these dialogues properly (13).
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Nercam, Nathalie. "L’introduction problématique du Timée (17a-27a)." PLATO JOURNAL 15 (December 30, 2015): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_15_3.

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The purpose of this article is to reconsider the Timaeus’ introduction (17a-27a) in order to show that Plato invites the reader to demystify the discourses of the Greek political elite of the fifth century. Dreamy land, in the autochtony myth, or ocean of nightmare, in Atlantis, khôra is the aporia of the story of Critias. Compared with Republic, this khôra is in fact the phobic projection of the aristocracy’s annoyed desires.
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Dutmer, Evan. "Scipio’s Rome and Critias’ Athens: Utopian Mythmaking in Cicero’s De Republica and Plato’s Timaeus." New England Classical Journal 48, no. 1 (2021): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.52284/necj/48.1/article/dutmer.

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Scholarly debate on the relationship between Cicero’s De republica (On the Republic) and De Legibus (On the Laws) and the thought of Plato tends to focus on the supposed congruities or incongruities of the De republica and De legibus with Plato’s own Republic and Laws. Still, Plato’s discussion of ideal constitutions is not constrained to the Republic and Laws. In this essay I propose that we look to another of Plato’s dialogues for fruitful comparison: the Timaeus-Critias duology. In this essay I bring these two texts into substantive dialogue to illuminate mysterious features of both. Sketched in these complementary passages, I think, is an outline for a particular kind of approach to political theory, one proposed as novel by Cicero’s Laelius, but, as this essay hopes to show, with an interesting forerunner in Plato. I’ve called this approach ‘retrospective ideal political philosophy’ (RIPP). I end my essay with a few prospective theoretical notes on how this approach binds these two texts together.
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ZHANG, Hong-Quan. "Is Atlantis related to the green Sahara?" International Journal of Hydrology 5, no. 3 (2021): 132–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/ijh.2021.05.00275.

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Most scholars take Atlantis as Plato’s invention to promote his political ideal articulated in his masterwork The Republic. This paper points out that the green Sahara period encompasses the time of Atlantis according to Plato’s records. The transitions between the green Sahara and desert Sahara were controlled by the water cycle stability in the Atlas Basin, an area fitting all the features of the Atlas Empire as described in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias. The historical account of Atlantis by Plato is compared with the newly identified site, the timelines of climate changes, a likely hydrological process, and the geographical profiles in the Atlas Basin.
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Safiulina, Rano M. "Plato’s concepts Space and Earth in K.E. Tsiolkovsky’s fantastic story “Beyond the Earth”." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 3 (May 2023): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.3-23.057.

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The article for the first time makes a comparative analysis of the concepts of the Cosmos and the Earth of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato and the founder of astronautics K.E. Tsiolkovsky. A hypothesis is put forward that the philosophical basis for writing the fantastic story “Out of the Earth” by Tsiolkovsky is the interpretation of the Cosmos and the Earth from Plato’s dialogues “Phaedo”, “Timaeus”, “Critias”. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that for the first time the deep penetration of Plato’s philosophy into the structure of Tsiolkovsky’s story “Out of the Earth” is revealed. The relevance of the study is due to the lack of coverage of this scientific problem. The definitions Cosmos, Earth are given in the understanding of Plato and Tsiolkovsky. The results of a comparative analysis of the concepts of Cosmos and Earth, the interpretation of the terms kalos cosmos, epimeleia heautou (take care of yourself) in Plato’s dialogues and in Tsiolkovsky’s story “Out of the Earth” are presented. It is suggested that the concept of the ideal Cosmos and the probability of the death of the Earth in the Platonic sense are implied in the text of the story “Out of the Earth” to solve scientific and creative problems of the early twentieth century — space flights and the creation of space settlements. The influence of Plato’s dialogues “Phaedo”, “Timaeus”, “Critias” on the style of Tsiolkovsky’s story is revealed. The questions of the originality of the genre of Tsiolkovsky’s story, its artistic features, the role of dialogues, ekphrasis are considered. It is proved that the concept of dual worlds of the ancient Greek philosopher is invariably traced in the storylines, landscape sketches, in the dialogues of the heroes of the story “Out of the Earth”. This idea of Plato will become the main one in the philosophy of Tsiolkovsky. Resettlement in space, in his opinion, means for mankind familiarization with the Cosmos — a perfect beautiful creation. Life in space settlements will save people from suffering, disease, war and give them immortality. An analysis of the concepts of Cosmos and Earth by Plato and Tsiolkovsky allows us to conclude that the idealistic views of Plato acquired a technogenic, purely materialistic, realistic embodiment in the work of Tsiolkovsky and became an incentive for technological progress, opening up new ways for the development of mankind.
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Суриков, И. Е. "Two Critiases and Atlantis From the history of Athenian oligarchic thought." Диалог со временем, no. 86(86) (April 3, 2024): 68–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.21267/aquilo.2024.86.86.002.

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Вопрос о том, в чьи уста вложена Платоном в «Тимее» и «Критии» легенда об Атлантиде дискуссионен. Согласно традиционной точке зрения, рассказывающий ее Критий тождественен известному олигарху конца V в. до н.э. Критию, сыну Каллесхра (дяде Платона), в 404–403 гг. до н.э. возглавлявшему репрессивный режим «Тридцати тиранов» в Афинах. Однако такая идентификация Крития вышеупомянутых диалогов порождает непреодолимые хронологические трудности. В свое время по эпиграфическим данным стал известен другой Критий (сын Леаида), дед «тирана», и крайне велика вероятность того, что именно он выведен Платоном в ка-честве действующего лица «Тимея» и «Крития». Обоснованию этого тезиса посвящена эта часть статьи. В том случае, если он верен, перед нами предстает целая семья, в которой крайне-олигархические воззрения передавались по наследству. Данное положение хорошо согласуется с тем фактом, что еще один представитель этой семьи – Каллесхр (отец младшего Крития и сын старшего) – тоже был политиком-олигархом. Debatable is the question as to into whose mouth the Atlantis legend of the Timaeusand Critias was put by Plato. According to the traditional opinion, Critias, who tells it, is identical with the noted late fifth-century B.C. oligarch Critias son of Callaeschrus (Plato’s uncle), who was at the head of the repressive “Thirty tyrants” regime in Athensin 404–403 B.C. However, such an identification of Critias gives rise to very serious and insurmountable chronological difficulties. Some time ago, another Critias (son of Leaides), the “tyrant”’ grandfather, became known from epigraphic data, and extremely likely is possibility that it is he who was depicted by Plato as a character of the Timaeus and Critias. This part of the article is devoted to the substantiation of this thesis. If it is correct, an entire family appears before us, in which extremely oligarchic position was hereditary. Such a situation is well agreed with the fact that another member of the family, Callaeschrus (father of the younger Critias and son of the elder one) was also an oligarchic politician.
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E.J., Morelli. "From Metaphysics to Methodoly: Republic V, 477cd and the Ancient Problem of Rational Opinion." Платоновские исследования, no. 09(02) (December 7, 2018): 30–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25985/pi.9.2.02.

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Plato is often read as a philosopher of objectivity and exteriority, as, primarily, a metaphysician, yet philosophers of interiority have relied upon Plato in turning to the subject. What did they find in Plato? A consideration of one issue central to Plato and Platonism, the distinction between opinion and knowledge and the resulting problem of the status and value of our cognition of sensibles, reveals that a locus classicus for the metaphysical reading of Plato, Republic V, 477cd, contains within it a long-overlooked invitation to turn inward and pursue an interior study of psyche and its ways of thinking, a methodology. A review of early Platonists’ attempts to grapple with the problem of our cognition of sensibles reveals the dominance of the metaphysical approach, its common pitfalls, and the need for as well as the potential of a complementary methodological approach. Although the early Platonists tended to deal with psyche metaphysically, at times the exigencies of inquiry do seem to have pushed them to consider it more interiorly. Insights into the principles and results of a methodological approach can be gleaned from their efforts. A consideration of Plato’s treatment of psyche and opinion in the dialogues, especially the Timaeus-Critias, helps fill out the picture, suggests a possible solution to the problem of our cognition of sensibles, and gives the impression that Plato regards the interior methodological approach, not as a way of supplanting metaphysics, but rather as a way of rendering it more critical and concrete. Платона часто прочитывают как философа объективности и «внешности», как в первую очередь метафизика, однако именно на Платона полагались философы «внутренности», обращаясь к субъекту. Что они находили в Платоне? Рассмотрение одного вопроса, центрального для Платона и платонизма, а именно различия между мнением и знанием, как и вытекающей отсюда проблемы статуса и ценности нашего постижения чувственных вещей, обнаруживает, что locus classicus метафизического прочтения Платона, R. V, 477cd, содержит давно игнорировавшееся приглашение обратиться внутрь и заняться внутренним исследованием души и ее способов мышления, некую методологию. Обзор попыток ранних платоников решить проблему нашего постижения чувственных вещей раскрывает преобладание метафизического подхода с его обычными подвохами, а вместе с тем — необходимость и возможность комплементарного методологического подхода. Пусть ранние платоники и выказывали тенденцию рассматривать душу метафизически, порой логика исследования всё же заставляла их подходить к ней в более «внутреннем» ключе. Их усилия позволяют разглядеть принципы и результаты иного методологического подхода. Платоновская трактовка души и мнения в диалогах, особенно в «Тимее-Критии», помогает восполнить картину, подсказывает возможное решение проблемы нашего постижения чувственных вещей и наводит на мысль, что сам Платон воспринимал «внутренний» методологический подход не как способ вытеснить метафизику, а скорее как способ сделать ее более критичной и конкретной.
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Smith, Suzanne. "The New Atlantis: Francis Bacon's Theological-Political Utopia?" Harvard Theological Review 101, no. 1 (2008): 97–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816008001740.

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In his seminal 1968 study of Francis Bacon's political thought, Howard B. White argued that the New Atlantis is “a rewriting of a Platonic myth, and a rewriting clearly intended as a refutation.” Bacon's attack on Plato, however, is partially mediated through his critique of Christianity. Indeed, Bacon pays more explicit attention to the tropes and themes of revealed religion than he does to those of the story of the “old” Atlantis told in Plato's Timaeus and Critias. Scholars are divided as to the exact nature of Bacon's intentions in his treatment of religion in the New Atlantis. Richard Tuck suggests that “the desire for a reconstructed religion” is “explicit in the blend of Protestantism and Judaism” created by Bacon. Most scholars, however, unlike Tuck, argue that Bacon was more interested in undermining religion—or more specifically, its political authority—than in reconstructing it. Laurence Lampert's argument that Bacon stands at the head of “the actual holy war fought in Europe . . ., the warfare of science against religion that tamed sovereign religion” typifies much of the scholarly commentary on the New Atlantis since White's reading of it almost forty years ago. The consensus view is that Bacon promotes the politic manipulation of the tropes and themes of revealed religion so that they might be made to support the modern scientific project and the cause of peace from religious strife: “Bacon's lifelong concern for religion uniformly expressed itself in arguments for moderation in religion.” White argues that Bacon demonstrates how “religious turmoil” can be countered “not only by religious toleration, but also by religious eclecticism, amounting to religious universality.”
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Jonkers, Gijsbert. The textual tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias. Brill, 2017.

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Plato: Timaeus and Critias. Taylor & Francis Group, 2012.

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Taylor, A. E. Plato: Timaeus and Critias. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Taylor, A. E. Plato: Timaeus and Critias. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Plato: Timaeus and Critias. Routledge, 2013.

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Taylor, A. E. Plato: Timaeus and Critias. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Taylor, A. Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203101360.

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Jowett, Benjamin, and Plato. Dialogues of Plato: Republic. Timaeus. Critias. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.

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Plato. The Timaeus and Critias of Plato. Kessinger Publishing, 2003.

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Jowett, Benjamin, and Plato. Dialogues of Plato: Republic. Timaeus. Critias. Creative Media Partners, 2018.

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": TIMAEUS AND CRITIAS." In Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203101360-11.

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"Timaeus and Critias." In Plato: The Man and His Work (RLE: Plato). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203101377-22.

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"Timaeus." In Oxford World's Classics: Plato: Timaeus and Critias. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00246984.

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"Critias." In Oxford World's Classics: Plato: Timaeus and Critias. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00246985.

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"if the body of the universe could have been a plane one middle term would have sufficed to bind." In Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203101360-5.

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"so heaven has and is and shall be through all time. By this." In Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203101360-6.

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"So a looser rind—we now call it skin—formed." In Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203101360-7.

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"APPENDIX I I . THE STORY OF ATLANTIS." In Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato). Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203101360-9.

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Pradeau, Jean-François. "The Life of the City: the Timaeus-Critias." In Plato and the City. Liverpool University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780859896535.003.0005.

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Rowe, Christopher. "Myth, History, and Dialectic in Plato’s Republic and Timaeus-Critias." In From Myth to Reason? Oxford University PressOxford, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198152347.003.0015.

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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore, with the help of one central example, some aspects of the interplay between the notions of muthos, centred on the sense of the ‘fictional’, and logos, or whatever term might be used to denote the opposed category of the non-fictional, in Plato. My example is one that Penelope Murray also refers to in her contribution to the present volume: the construction of the ideal city of the Republic, and what seemsto be represented as the same city (exemplified, according to Critias, by a primitive Athens), in the Timaeus-Critias.
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