by Plato · Harvard University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780674992573
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«Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles» is the volume of dialogues and epistles by Plato in hardcover from Harvard University Press (656 pages).
The work brings together five Platonic texts: the Timaeus expounds a cosmology on the origin and structure of the universe; the Critias presents the account of Atlantis; the Cleitophon and the Menexenus address virtue and funeral oratory; and the Epistles are letters attributed to Plato.
Volume 234 of the Loeb Classical Library, with a translation by R. G. Bury and a bilingual text in English and Greek.
For students and scholars of classical philosophy, especially those interested in Plato.
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.
