@@> On Apr-24-98 Hal White wrote to David Martorana
 @@> on  "Virtue"
 
 HW>   Since you're reading Plato, why not look a the "Timaeus."
 HW> There is a nice Bobbs Merrill version, tr. by F. Cornford,
 HW> with the title, _Plato's Cosmology_.  Cornford supplies
 HW> a running commentary.   The book was tremendously influential
 HW> as a cosmology, for hundreds of years.
 
  Yes! ...ran across it and "Critas" some years back as the primary
  source for Atlantis (ATu-R-ANTES), a recurring pleasure to think
  on (even tried to work up its site in Sicily).  I have the little
  green Loeb Classic version.  Except for fragments, Plato is TOO
  BIG for me to take "head on". After your suggestion, I plucked it
  off the shelf and started reading it again. It was pleasantly fun
  to look back at all the tiny corner notations and red/yellow marked
  passages. I have no problem with Plato when he stays away from
  "people thinking". His cosmology thicket is pleasantly poetic
  reading. The "living stars" and the earth as a "nurse" greatly
  appealed to me (my also entertaining Nature to tease among
  qualities of soul). I WILL check on the Merrill version and am sure
  his commentary would draw me into "proper appreciation" so I won't
  end up too far to the left of Frank.
       There are so many corners of being, so pleasant to cruise
  among ....................and I won't get to most of them....
  nor will I get it all straight when I do ! 
 
                            @@ ... Dave
 
  Though I keep Atlantis on a back burner, I do peek into anything
  new that comes it along!!!
 
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