Timeu
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
- Extensió:
- ~80.400 paraules · 382 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAPlató. (n.d.). Timaeus [Timeu]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/timaeus
- MLAPlató. Timaeus [Timeu]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/timaeus.
- ChicagoPlató. Timaeus [Timeu]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/timaeus.
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De què tracta
El relat de com es va formar el món: un artesà diví que ordena el caos mirant un model etern, amb una cosmologia, una física dels quatre elements i una fisiologia humana.
Context i història
Durant tota l'edat mitjana llatina va ser gairebé l'únic Plató que es podia llegir a Occident, i per això va marcar la manera cristiana de pensar la creació molt més que la resta de la seva obra. També és el text que ha donat l'Atlàntida, esmentada aquí i al Crítias i enlloc més d'antic.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
caste of priests among the ancient Athenians, and another of artisans; also castes of shepherds, hunters, and husbandmen, and lastly of warriors, who, like the warriors of Egypt, were separated from the rest, and carried shields and spears, a custom which the goddess first taught you, and then the Asiatics, and we among Asiatics first received from her. Observe again, what care the law took in the pursuit of wisdom, searching out the deep things of the world, and applying them to the use of man. The spot of earth which the goddess chose had the best of climates, and produced the wisest men; in no other was she herself, the philosopher and warrior goddess, so likely to have votaries. And there you dwelt as became the children of the gods, excelling all men in virtue, and many famous actions are recorded of you. The most famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of Atlantis. This great island lay over against the Pillars of Heracles, in extent greater than Libya and Asia put together, and was the passage to other islands and to a great ocean of which the Mediterranean sea was only the harbour; and within the Pillars the empire of Atlantis reached in Europe to Tyrrhenia and in Libya to Egypt. This mighty power was arrayed against Egypt and Hellas and all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. Then your city did bravely, and won renown over the whole earth. For at the peril of her own existence, and when the other Hellenes had deserted her, she repelled the invader, and of her own accord gave liberty to all the nations within the Pillars. A little while afterwards there were great earthquakes and floods, and your warrior race all sank into the earth; and the great island of Atlantis also disappeared in the sea.…