{"id":10792,"date":"2010-09-01T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T19:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=10792"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:30:16","slug":"english-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/english-translations\/","title":{"rendered":"English Translations"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/strong>nglish <\/strong>T<\/strong>ranslations <\/strong>of Plato\u2019s T<\/em>imaeus<\/em> and C<\/em>ritias<\/em> have been freely available since 1793,when Thomas Taylor <\/a>produced his translation.<\/p>\n

In 1804, Taylor published the first English translation of the entire Platonic corpus. In 1871, Benjamin Jowett <\/a>produced\u00a0 the most commonly quoted version of the Atlantis Dialogues, principally because his work is now out of copyright. Henry Davis\u00a0<\/a><\/span>produced a translation of Critias in the 19th<\/sup> century and John Alexander Stewart <\/a><\/span>also offered a translation of Critias early in the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/span><\/p>\n

1925 saw W.R.M. Lamb <\/a>publish a translation of some of Plato’s works and today his rendering\u00a0of both Timaeus<\/em> and Critias <\/em>is used by the Perseus Digital<\/em> Library<\/em>(a)<\/sup>. In 1929, Lewis Spence <\/a>included a composite version of the Atlantis texts in The History of Atlantis<\/em>, using the English translations of Jowett and Archer-Hind <\/a>for Timaeus<\/em> and the French translations of Jolibois<\/a> and Negris<\/a> for Critias<\/em>. Rev. R. G. Bury <\/a>gave us what was arguably the best translation of the Dialogues (Loeb Classical Library, 1929) and is included at the beginning of this book. Francis M. Cornford <\/a>(1874-1943) published his Timaeus<\/em> (Bobbs-Merrill, 1937)<\/p>\n

Sir Desmond Lee <\/a>produced a new English translation in 1972 (Penguin)<\/p>\n

Professor Diskin Clay delivered an acclaimed translation of C<\/em>ritias<\/em> (Hackett Publishing, 1997). Professor Donald J. Zeyl <\/a>offered a new translation of T<\/em>imaeus<\/em> (Hackett Publishing, 2000). Dr. Peter Kalkavage <\/a>published\u00a0a highly regarded translation of T<\/em>imaeus<\/em> (Focus Philosophical Library, 2001).<\/p>\n

In 2008, Robin Waterfield <\/a>offered a new translation of Critias and Timaeus[<\/sup>0922<\/sup><\/a>]\u00a0<\/sup> as well as a revision of Desmond Lee\u2019s translation of them by Thomas Kjeller Johansen.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/collections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

English Translations of Plato\u2019s Timaeus and Critias have been freely available since 1793,when Thomas Taylor produced his translation. In 1804, Taylor published the first English translation of the entire Platonic corpus. In 1871, Benjamin Jowett produced\u00a0 the most commonly quoted version of the Atlantis Dialogues, principally because his work is now out of copyright. Henry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2686,693,1151,2239,2683,2682,2684,2509,2512,1256,2685,2548,2538,2508,403],"class_list":["post-10792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archer-hind","tag-benjamin-jowett","tag-critias","tag-desmond-lee","tag-diskin-clay","tag-donald-j-zeyl","tag-francis-m-cornford","tag-henry-davis","tag-john-alexander-stewart","tag-peter-kalkavage","tag-rev-r-g-bury","tag-robin-waterfield","tag-thomas-kjeller-johansen","tag-thomas-taylor","tag-timaeus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66280,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions\/66280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}