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The Story of Atlantis: its Purpose and its Moral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

R. Hackforth
R. Hackforth
Affiliation:
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
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The Classical Review , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , May 1944 , pp. 7 - 9
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1944

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page 7 note 1 For some speculations on the projected content of the Hermocrates, and on the plan of the whole trilogy, see Cornford, F. M., Plato's Cosmology, pp. 6–8.Google Scholar

page 8 note 1 Cf. Friedländer, P., Die plat. Sckriften, p. 602Google Scholar. ‘Vielmehr wächst aus der gemeinsamen Wurzel der Staatsutopie der Doppelmythos: einerseits das Weltgebäude als “grössere Politeia” (Proklos), als die im Raum sich entfaltende “Idee des Guten”, als höchster Erziehungsgegenstand, der zu jener Idee emporfährt, als Bild, das schon im Schlussmythos des Staates vom Schicksal der Seele weiten Raum beansprucht—andererseits Urathen als Hineingestaltung ins Zeitliche und Verbildlichung dessen, was in der Form des reinen Seins der Staat gebracht hatte.’

page 8 note 2 Commentary on P.'s Timaeus, p. 50. Similarly in his translation, p. 104.