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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Critias"”.
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Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias
… Alcibiades--the worst man in the democracy--and Critias--the worst in the oligarchy--are the most notorious characters.. This dissertation argues that Plato uses these characters in order to open a diachronic dimension in the synchronic accounts of the dialogues. This dimension turns historical …
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Traditional Gods and Civic Religion in Plato’s Later Dialogues
… status and function in the Timaeus and the Critias as well as the ethical value of civic religion in the Laws. In the first chapter, I discuss the place of traditional gods in the cosmogony of the Timaeus. I argue that the dialogue preserves only a few elements of the conventional religious …
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La expresión arquitectónica de la Atlántida
… (Platón, Diálogo Timeo o de la naturaleza, habla Critias a Sócrates, Timeo y Hermókrates)
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La imagen de Cádiz en los textos griegos y latinos: un análisis filológico-literario.
… histórico-literario de los diálogos Timeo y Critias y los múltiples y variados intentos de interpretación de los mismos, así como la importancia, la recurrencia y los significados de las menciones a Cádiz en las fuentes griegas contemporáneas y anteriores a Platón, haciendo especial hincapié …
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Anthropogony, Myth and Gender: Athenian Autochthony as a Case Study
… 4 investigates Plato’s Republic, Timaeus and Critias. In these works, myths of autochthony are repurposed again to criticize the civic idea of autochthony. Together, the four chapters demonstrate how different and competing authors and genres self-consciously revise myths, and how the mythic …
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Die Funktion der Atlantis-Rezeption in J. R. R. Tolkiens Númenor zwischen Empirie und Phantasie
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) ist mit seinem Mittelerde-Komplex einer der erfolgreichsten und wirkungsmächtigsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts und begründete mit seinem Schaffen die moderne Fantasy-Literatur. Zunächst von Leserinnen und Lesern immer wieder deutend als Allegorie des Zweiten …