Character, Plot, and Thought in Plato’s Timaeus-Critias [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 32 (2):374-375 (1978)
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It seems that the Timaeus is independent of the Critias, that the Critias is incomplete, and that the two dialogues are parts of a tetralogy contemplated but not completed by Plato. As Welliver remarks, most commentators have taken these seeming facts to be facts; some have proffered outlines of the supposed tetralogy; some have explained its supposed incompleteness by making Plato old and weary. Welliver believes that the Timaeus-Critias is a complete dramatic work, and most of his book represents an attempt to justify this belief.

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