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Plato · c. 428/427-348/347 BC

Critias

Κριτίας
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The Critias continues the Timaeus: Critias, the grandson of the man who heard it from Solon, tells of the war between ancient Athens and Atlantis, nine thousand years before. He describes the early Athens given by lot to Athene and Hephaestus, and then the island of Atlantis, which Poseidon received as his portion and where he settled the sons he had by the mortal Cleito. The dialogue breaks off as Zeus calls the gods together to punish the corrupted kings of Atlantis.

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Greek original with English translation, 5 passages, about 7200 words in English.
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Robert Gregg Bury (1929)
Edition
Robert Gregg Bury (trans.), Plato IX: Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1929; Greek text: John Burnet, Platonis Opera, Oxford Classical Texts (as digitised by Perseus)
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Plato, Critias 106a (by Stephanus page and section (e, g, 404e))

Contents · 5 passages

  1. 106a–108eCritias asks for indulgence: speaking of gods and of men1137 words
  2. 109b–112eAthens and the land of Attica: Athene and Hephaestus, the old acropolis and the warriors1875 words
  3. 113a–115eAtlantis: Poseidon and Cleito, the ten kings and the riches of the island1482 words
  4. 116b–118eThe royal city of Atlantis, the canals, the temple of Poseidon and the plain1469 words
  5. 119a–121cThe laws of the ten kings and the decline of Atlantis1274 words

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English translation by Robert Gregg Bury (1929). Original text: Robert Gregg Bury (trans.), Plato IX: Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1929; Greek text: John Burnet, Platonis Opera, Oxford Classical Texts (as digitised by Perseus).

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