Timaeus and Critias -- Plato

<p><strong>Timaeus is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character.</strong> The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings. It is followed by the dialogue Critias. Critias, one of Plato's late dialogues, it contains the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens. </p><p>Critias is the second of a projected trilogy of dialogues, preceded by Timaeus and followed by Hermocrates, though the latter was possibly never written and Critias was left incomplete.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Plato<br><b>Publisher:</b> SMK Books<br><b>Published:</b> 04/03/2018<br><b>Pages:</b> 188<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.99lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781515431435<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Born to a politically connected and aristocratic family between 428 and 423 B.C., Plato received a good standard of education at an early age, and was able to immerse himself in the intellectual community of Ancient Athens. His most notable contemporary and mentor was Socrates, an eccentric but highly capable philosopher who was to feature as a principle character in most of Plato's scholarly writings. Owing to his high standard of education in art, mathematics, rhetoric and philosophy, Plato was able to assemble a comprehensive philosophy of his own via his favoured form of writing which was the dialogue. In total, over thirty of t