Timaeus/Critias
Timaeus/Critias
Author: Plato
Desc: Taking the form of dialogues between Socrates Timaeus Critias and Hermocrates these two works are among Plato's final writings. In Timaeus he gives a thorough account of the world in which we live describing a cosmos composed of four elements earth air fire and water which combine to give existence to all things. An exploration of the origins of the universe life and humanity which outlines not just physical laws but also metaphysical and religious principles it remained a paradigm of science for two thousand years. The mysterious preamble to Timaeus contains the first account in literature of Atlantis while the fragmentary Critias unfinished by its author provides a spellbinding description of the lost continent's ideal society which Critias asserts was created by the god-like children of Poseidon himself.