Atlantis ( in Greek,, " island of Atlas ") is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC.

A 15th-century Latin translation of Plato's Timaeus

Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis.

His work, a commentary on Plato's Timaeus, is lost, but Proclus, a Neoplatonist of the fifth century AD, reports on it.

Plato's account of Atlantis may have also inspired parodic imitation: writing only a few decades after the Timaeus and Critias, the historian Theopompus of Chios wrote of a land beyond the ocean known as Meropis.

The philosophical usage and the proper noun derive from Plato's Timaeus, written circa 360 BC, in which the demiurge is presented as the creator of the universe.

Plato's work Timaeus is a philosophical reconciliation of Hesiod's cosmology in his Theogony, syncretically reconciling Hesiod to Homer.

Before Numenius of Apamea and Plotinus ' Enneads, no Platonic works ontologically clarified the Demiurge from the allegory in Plato's Timaeus.

Because of his Neoplatonist background Julian accepted the creation of humanity as described in Plato's Timaeus.

These three divisions are elaborated further, so that the intelligible moment consists of three triads ( Being, Eternity, and the Living Being or Paradigm from Plato's Timaeus ).

The intelligible-intellectual moment also consists of three triads, and the intellectual moment is a hebdomad ( seven elements ), among which is numbered the Demiurge from Plato's Timaeus and also the monad of Time ( which is before temporal things ).

In his commentary on Plato's Timaeus Proclus explains the role the Soul as a principle has in mediating the Forms in Intellect to the body of the material world as a whole.

* Commentary on Plato's " Timaeus "

* Commentary on Plato's " Timaeus " Thomas Taylor translation.

Plotinus here then reconciles the " Good over the Demiurge " from Plato's Timaeus with Aristotle's static " unmoved mover " of Actus et potentia.

The first emanation is Nous ( Divine Mind, logos or order, Thought, Reason ), identified metaphorically with the Demiurge in Plato's Timaeus.

Plotinus, for example, attacked the Gnostics for vilifying Plato's ontology of the universe contained in Timaeus, and the universes ' creation by the demiurge.

In Plato's philosophy ( in particular, the Timaeus and the Philebus ), things were said to come into being in this world by the action of a demiurge who works to form chaos into ordered entities.

: Receiving Plato's Timaeus ', Existentia Meletai-Sophias 11 ( 2001 ), 473-490.

According to Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, he visited Neith's temple at Sais and received from the priests there an account of the history of Atlantis.

Plato's Timaeus and Critias state that in the temple of Neith at Sais, there were secret halls containing historical records which had been kept for 9, 000 years.

Inspiration for the mythology in the game, such as the description of the city and the appearance of the metal orichalcum, was primarily drawn from Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, and from Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World that revived interest in the myth during the nineteenth century.

Although it is not certain, Posidonius may have written a commentary on Plato's Timaeus.

* Commentaries on Plato's Timaeus, First Alcibiades, and other dialogues.

In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with air is the octahedron which is formed from eight equilateral triangles.

In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with water is the icosahedron which is formed from twenty equilateral triangles.

Plato believed the elements were geometric forms ( the platonic solids ) and he assigned the cube to the element of earth in his dialogue Timaeus.

Plato, as the speaker Timaeus, refers to the Demiurge frequently in the Socratic dialogue Timaeus, circa 360 BC.

Besides Zarathushtra's Gathas, Plato gives the earliest surviving account of a " natural theology ", around 360 BC, in his dialogue " Timaeus " he states " Now the whole Heaven, or Cosmos, ... we must first investigate concerning it that primary question which has to be investigated at the outset in every case ,— namely, whether it has existed always, having no beginning of generation, or whether it has come into existence, having begun from some beginning ".

Plato, in his dialogue Timaeus, describes a creation myth involving a being called the demiurge ( δημιουργός " craftsman ").

The Timaeus, a Socratic dialogue written by Plato, mirrors that identification with Athena, possibly as a result of the identification of both goddesses with war and weaving.

The word ὑποτείνουσα was used for the hypotenuse of a triangle by Plato in the Timaeus ( dialogue ) 54d and by many other ancient authors.

* Timaeus ( dialogue )

The Greek word is attested in Plato's dialogue Timaeus, already referring to a spherical Earth, explaining the relativity of the terms " above " and " below ":

See also: Archimedes, Johannes Kepler, planimetry, Plato, Timaeus ( dialogue )

Speakers of the dialogue are Socrates, Timaeus of Locri, Hermocrates, and Critias.

The main content of the dialogue, the exposition by Timaeus, follows.

Plato's Atlantis described in Timaeus and Critias ( dialogue ) | Critias

This theory is explored in Plato's dialogue Timaeus and was also supported by Aristotle.

Plato in his dialogue Timaeus defined the " perfect year " as the return of the celestial bodies ( planets ) and the fixed stars ( circle of the Same ) to their original positions:

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Plato's Atlantis described in Timaeus ( dialogue ) | Timaeus and Critias

* Timaeus ( dialogue ), a Socratic dialogue by Plato

* Timaeus of Locri, the 5th-century ( BC ) Pythagorean philosopher, appearing in Plato's dialogue

He is credited with the lost work On the Soul of the Universe, although some historians believe this may be an abridgement of Plato's dialogue of Timaeus.