Timeo
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~80.400 parole · 382 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAPlatone. (n.d.). Timaeus [Timeo]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plato/timaeus
- MLAPlatone. Timaeus [Timeo]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plato/timaeus.
- ChicagoPlatone. Timaeus [Timeo]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plato/timaeus.
Riferimento all’edizione riprodotta. SigPhi è la riproduzione digitale. Anno, editore e traduttore compaiono quando noti; «n.d.» indica un anno sconosciuto.
Di che cosa tratta
Il racconto di come fu fatto il mondo: un artefice divino che ordina il caos guardando a un modello eterno, insieme a una cosmologia, a una fisica dei quattro elementi e a una fisiologia umana.
Contesto e storia
Per tutto il Medioevo latino questo fu quasi l'unico Platone che l'Occidente potesse leggere, ed è per questo che ha plasmato il pensiero cristiano sulla creazione molto più del resto della sua opera. È anche la fonte di Atlantide, nominata qui e nel Crizia e in nessun altro testo antico.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul 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.…