Plato's Atlantis Story Gill Christopher
Plato's Atlantis Story Gill Christopher This book aims to bring together all the evidence relevant for understanding Plato's Atlantis Story, providing the Greek text of the relevant Platonic texts…
Specifikacia Plato's Atlantis Story Gill Christopher
Plato's Atlantis Story Gill Christopher
This book aims to bring together all the evidence relevant for understanding Plato's Atlantis Story, providing the Greek text of the relevant Platonic texts (the start of Plato's Timaeus and the incomplete Critias), together with a commentary on language and content, and a full vocabulary of Greek words. The book has two special objectives. This essential work also offers a new translation of these texts and a full introduction.
In conjunction with the new translation, this introduction provides a point of entry to a fascinating story for a wide range of readers. The introduction offers a full-scale interpretative reading of the Atlantis story, focused on the philosophical meaning of the story and the significance of Plato's presentation, and responding to recent scholarly discussion of these questions. The introduction also discusses the question whether the story had a factual basis,
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