Who’s Who In Plato’s Timaeus-Critias and Why

Review of Metaphysics 52 (1):87 - 125 (1998)
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“One, two, three—but where’s the fourth?” When Socrates counts to open the paired dialogues Timaeus-Critias he points to the three who are present, but he points most emphatically to a fourth who is absent—“sick,” Timaeus reports. Who are one, two, and three? But especially who, is the fourth, that ostentatiously absent fourth?

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