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 ...

“WE must endeavour,” wrote Plato in the “Timæus”, “to construct the four forms of bodies which excel in beauty, and then we shall be able to say that we have sufficiently appre hended ...

In his ancient writings like Timaeus and Critias, Greek philosopher Plato famously described the mythical lost city of ...