In Timaeus, Plato described Atlantis as having once been “larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, ...

Michael Donnellan presented scans showing circular structures submerged on the ocean floor, aligning with Plato's descriptions.

In 2024, researchers revealed they had found new details of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s burial site. It was a ...

The fabled city of Atlantis, long dismissed as mere myth, may finally have been discovered—just two miles off the coast of ...

Well, in the Timaeus, Plato wrote about the “classical elements,” which is the umbrella term for the group usually comprised of earth, water, fire, and air.

The only mention of Atlantis by name is in Plato’s Dialogues (written around 360 B.C.): “Timaeus,” which was a very complicated attempt to explain the universe, and “Critias,” which has ...

And so Plato, in the “Timaeus,” sets out to describe the creation of the universe in terms of numbers and their combination. What is fascinating in the reading ...

In the dialogue 'Timaeus,' Socrates raises the topic of 'what would an ideal state be like,' and Plato's great-grandfather Critias tells him that he knows just such a story, and tells him about ...

Timaeus (fifth century bc) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Locri, in Magna Graecia, now southern Italy. He was also a mathematician and astronomer. Plato studied with him while he was visiting ...