Critias

By Jowett, Benjamin

Book Id: WPLBN0000651800
Format Type: PDF eBook:
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Critias
Author:	Jowett, Benjamin
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Benjamin, 1817-189, B. J. (n.d.). Critias. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Excerpt: Introduction and Analysis. The critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was designed to be the second part of a trilogy, which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never completed. Timaeus had brought down the origin of the world to the creation of man, and the dawn of history was now to succeed the philosophy of nature.