Although many historians agree that Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis were purely fictitious — meant only to illustrate the larger point in his works Critias and Timaeus — this hasn’t ...

What does Plato have to do with any of this? Well, in the Timaeus, Plato wrote about the “classical elements,” which is the umbrella term for the group usually comprised of earth, water ...

Atlantis was described in Plato's books ' Timaeus ' and ' Critias ' as 'a continent and a civilization that had built a mighty civilization.' In the dialogue 'Timaeus,' Socrates raises the topic ...

He set up what’s called a Hierarchical Constraint Satisfaction and looked at every one of Plato’s clues in “Timaeus” and “Critias.” He weighted them and came up with an area on the map ...

In around 321 CE, the philosopher Calcidius had published a Latin translation of the first part of Plato's Timaeus, which for almost 800 years remained the only substantial section of Plato ...

Timaeus (fifth century bc) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Locri, in Magna Graecia, now southern Italy. He was also a mathematician and astronomer. Plato studied with him while he was visiting ...