Auteur(s) : Slobodan DUSANIC (Univ. de Belgrade, Yougoslavie)
Titre : Plato’s Atlantis
Revue : L’Antiquité Classique
Volume : 51
Date : 1982
Pages : 25-52

Abstract:
In accordance with Plato’s political and philosophical conceptions, the Atlantis of the Timaeus-Critias must be understood as a cumulative symbol of the corrupt Athens and the corrupt Syracuse at the same time. The topical facts of the two dialogues reveal an engagement of Plato’s Academy in the political events of 357-355 B.C., the approximate context of the Timaeus-Critias. Special attention has been devoted to the dialogues’ dramatic date, the occasion of the conversation and the choice of characters to the images of the royal ritual and the natural catastrophe, and to the genealogy of the Atlantid kings.