The Classical Quarterly: Volume 3 -

The Place of the Timaeus in Plato's Dialogues
G. E. L. Owen
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11 February 2009, pp. 79-95
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It is now nearly axiomatic among Platonic scholars that the Timaeus and its unfinished sequel the Critias belong to the last stage of Plato's writings. The Laws (including, for those who admit its claims, the Epinomis) is generally held to be wholly or partly a later production. So, by many, is the Philebus, but that is all. Perhaps the privileged status of the Timaeus in the Middle Ages helped to fix the conviction that it embodies Plato's maturest theories.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon 146 ff.1
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
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11 February 2009, p. 96
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The last few words involve a difficulty which only Wilamowitz has perceived. The adjective could do either of two jobs: it could mean ‘without a feast’ or it could be part of an expression like meaning ‘a feast that is no feast’ and made on the model , etc. If it is being used in the former way, follows oddly upon .

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