Plato's dialogue Timaeus (as a character related to the Atlantis story)

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Plato's dialogue "Timaeus" is a philosophical work in which characters such as Critias recount the legendary story of Atlantis within a broader cosmological and metaphysical discussion.

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instanceOf Platonic dialogue character
fictional character
appearsIn Timaeus (dialogue) NERFINISHED
associatedWith Pythagorean philosophy
conversesWith Critias (character) NERFINISHED
Hermocrates (character) NERFINISHED
Socrates (character) NERFINISHED
createdBy Plato NERFINISHED
culturalContext Classical Greek philosophy
dialogueSetting Athens NERFINISHED
discussesTopic Demiurge NERFINISHED
World Soul NERFINISHED
cosmology
creation of the universe
metaphysics
genreContext Platonic cosmological myth
influenced Hellenistic philosophical traditions
later Platonist cosmology
medieval cosmology through the dialogue Timaeus
languageOfWork Ancient Greek
literaryFunction vehicle for Plato’s cosmological doctrines
name Timaeus NERFINISHED
narrativeRelationToAtlantis present at recounting of Atlantis story
narrativeRoleRelativeToAtlantis secondary to Critias as narrator of Atlantis
ontologicalStatus fictionalized representation of a Pythagorean thinker
origin Locri in Italy NERFINISHED
philosophicalFunction expounder of a mathematical-cosmological model
interpreter of divine craftsmanship in the cosmos
philosophicalTheme human soul and body
nature of time
relationship between intelligible and sensible realms
structure of the physical elements
relatedMyth Atlantis NERFINISHED
relatedWork Critias (dialogue) NERFINISHED
roleInWork cosmological expositor
principal speaker
textualPosition speaker of the central monologue in the dialogue
timePeriodOfFictionalSetting classical Athens

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Critias (the elder cousin of Charmides) portrayedIn Plato's dialogue Timaeus (as a character related to the Atlantis story)
subject surface form: Critias