Timée/Critias

Publié par Flammarion, le 04 janvier 1999

438 pages

Résumé

Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe & explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre & surreal cosmos--the product of the rational thinking of a creator god & his astral assistants, & of purely mechanistic causes based on the behavior of the four elements. At times dazzlingly clear, at times intriguingly opaque, this was state-of-the-art science in the middle of the 4th century BCE. 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, & how a lost race of Athenians defeated the aggression of the invading Atlanteans.

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