On the Inauthenticity of the Critias

Rashed, Marwan; Auffret, Thomas

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“…Bury (1929), italics mine. Here and elsewhere I consider the Critias an authentic Platonic dialogue, as recently confirmed byTarrant (2019); contraRashed and Auffret (2017).4 Cf. LSJ s.v.…”

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Rolling Sisyphus’ Stone Uphill? Plato’s Philosophy of History and Progress Reappraised

Vassallo

2021

J. Hell. Stud.

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This paper addresses the following questions about Plato’s concept of ‘history’: (a) is there a ‘philosophy of history’ in Plato’s thought?; (b) if this concept exists, do the dialogues lay out a single, cohesive understanding of ‘history’ or does it vary from text to text?; (c) how does Plato understand the word ‘history’? This inquiry also addresses the role of ‘progress’ in some of the main Platonic dialogues. An in-depth analysis of these texts can also help us find a solution to the problem of the end of ‘history’, when a civilization either physically collapses (due to a catastrophic event) or morally decays (because of the corruption of its citizens and politicians). I argue that Plato’s ‘philosophy of history’ is not necessarily Sisyphean, but that it attempts to work out how to avoid the entropic decay of civilization and to preserve cultural – almost ‘genetic’ – ‘memory’ in order to counter the danger of cyclical regression.

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“…Bury (1929), italics mine. Here and elsewhere I consider the Critias an authentic Platonic dialogue, as recently confirmed byTarrant (2019); contraRashed and Auffret (2017).4 Cf. LSJ s.v.…”

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Rolling Sisyphus’ Stone Uphill? Plato’s Philosophy of History and Progress Reappraised

Vassallo

2021

J. Hell. Stud.

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“…Rashed and Auffret (2017) 239-41 have recently doubted the authenticity of the Critias on the grounds that Critias envisages only two speeches in Ti. 27a-b, one by Timaeus and another by him, whereas Socrates anticipates a third speech from Hermocrates in Criti.…”

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Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

Bartninkas

2023

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This book sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods. A close reading of the later dialogues shows that the two families of gods are routinely deployed to organise and structure Plato's accounts of the origins of the universe and of humanity and its social institutions, and to illuminate the moral and political ideals of philosophical utopias. Vilius Bartninkas argues that the presence of the two kinds of gods creates a dynamic, yet productive, tension in Plato's thinking which is unmistakable and which is not resolved until the works of his students. Thus the book closes by exploring how the cosmological and religious ideas of Plato's later dialogues resurfaced in the Early Academy and how the debates initiated there ultimately led to the collapse of this theological distinction.

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“…19Translated by Diskin Clay inCooper and Hutchinson 1997. The authenticity of the Critias has recently been doubted byRashed and Auffret (2017) but this has been thoroughly debunked byTarrant (2019). For a different reading of this passage, see chapter 3.2 in this volume.…”

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