"Critias" by Plato is a part of a bigger set of stories that thinks about big ideas using an old myth. The story talks about Atlantis, a super strong island, and Athens, a city known for being smart. Critias tells a story he heard about Atlantis, saying it came from an old Athenian guy named Solon, who got it from Egyptian priests. Atlantis started out great, ruled by ten kingdoms, but then it turned evil because people got greedy. This made the gods angry, and Atlantis was destroyed. The story looks at what happens when people are good or bad, what a perfect country should be like, and how even great places like Atlantis and Athens can fall apart.
Critias
By Plato
A legendary island nation's rise and fall from grace serves as a cautionary tale about power, virtue, and the wrath of the gods.
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About the AuthorPlato, born Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
Plato, born Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
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