Interpreting the "Timaeus - Critias" - Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium Platonicum, Granada. Selected Papers

The IVth Symposium Platonicum was entirely given over to a study of Plato's Timaeus and Critias.
The papers published here deal both with more traditional problems of interpretation - whether or not the universe had a beginning in time, the status of the demiurge, the relation between the Timaeus and the Critias - and with a range of questions less frequently discussed, i.e. the treatment in the Timaeus of mathematics, of cosmic providence, sense-perception, medicine, the relation between soul and body, the literary genre of the Critias, the political project of the two dialogues.

Product details

• Assisted by: Luc Brisson (Editor), Tomás Calvo (Editor)
• Publisher: Academia Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9783896650047
• ISBN: 978-3-89665-004-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 654 g
• Series: International Plato Studies; International Plato Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Antiquity