Plato’s Atlantis
Atlantis: Concealed and Revealed
Atlantis is not an ideal or an emotion, but a concrete and factual location. A place where men and women forged a life for themselves.
Timaeus: An Introduction and Analysis
Benjamin Jowett, an English scholar who undertook a work on Plato, first introduces us to Atlantis in the Timaeus dialogues in this introductory essay.
Critias: An Introduction and Analysis
Benjamin Jowett expanded his work on the translation of Plato’s Timaues texts with this introductory exploration of the Critias dialogues.
Timaeus: The Texts
Timaeus is the first of a theoretical triology of Plato in the form of a Socratic dialogue, written circa 360 BC. and succeeded by the dialogue Critias. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world and is the first mention of Atlantis.
Critias: The Texts
Critias is the second of a projected trilogy of dialogues, preceded by Timaeus and followed by Hermocrates, and describes of Atlantis’s attempt to conquer Athens.
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