Critias
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
50 min
9,888 words
en
Where the Timaeus narrates the making of the cosmos, the Critias begins the story of the great war between ancient Athens and Atlantis. Plato describes Atlantis with extraordinary detail — its rings of land and water, its kings, its eventual corruption — and then, for reasons no one knows, simply stops. The dialogue ends mid-speech. It remains the source of every Atlantis story since.
