FTP, identify this Platonic dialogue featuring Hemocrates, which is often paired with Critias, which discusses the war between the Athenians and the kingdom of Atlantis.
The dialogue discusses the nature of physics and describes time as the moving image of eternity. The author argues that just as a physical triangle approximates the ideal form of the triangle, the universe is only an shifting approximation of the ideal universe. The first part recaps the first five books of the Republic after Socrates asks to be entertained because of the amusement he provided the night before. It also describes four kinds of creatures in the universe: heavenly gods, winged things, water and land creatures. It also characterizes the Demiurge and how this craftsman God created the universe. FTP, identify this Platonic dialogue featuring Hemocrates, which is often paired with Critias, which discusses the war between the Athenians and the kingdom of Atlantis.
The dialogue discusses the nature of physics and describes time as the moving image of eternity.
Timaeus