The Lady of the Camellias is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, marie Duplessis. Set in mid-19th century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine or courtesan suffering from consumption, and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. Maruerite is nicknames la dame aux camelias (French for "the lady of the camellias"). Timaeus is on eof Plato's dialogues, written c. 360 BC. Timaeus begins with a distinction between the physical world, and the eternal world. The physical one is the world which changes and perishes: therefore it is the object of opinion and unreasoned sensation. the eternal one never changes: therefore it is apprehended by reason. Participants in the dialogue include Socrates, Timaeus, Hermocrates, and Critias. Critias is one of Plato's late dialogues. It recounts the story of the mighty island kingdom atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens, which failed due to the ordered society of the Athenians.
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