The Mind as an Illustrated Book
\nC\u0103t\u0103lin Partenie
\nPHILOSOPHY AND ART WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN<\/p>\n
Saturday, October 17 \u00b7 11:00
\nPhilosophy and art workshop for children aged 8\u201314
\nCost: 100 lei \u2013 includes a visit to the Picasso en visite<\/i> exhibition
\nArt Encounters, 46C Take Ionescu Boulevard, Timi\u0219oara<\/p>\n
Plato\u2019s dialogues are like a world that invites you to explore it. We will start with two of them, Timaeus<\/i> and Critias<\/i>, in which we learn how the ancient city of Athens defeated Atlantis, a great power that sought to subjugate many other cities and territories. Starting from a fragment of the dialogue Critias<\/i>, we will try to imagine what the city of Atlantis looked like and then draw it. We will look at and discuss each other\u2019s drawings, after which we will talk about how we can learn through play\u2014a theme in Plato\u2019s philosophy.<\/p>\n
These ideas are explored in C\u0103t\u0103lin Partenie\u2019s book Atlantis and Plato\u2019s Children<\/i> (2025), which aims to encourage readers to travel into Plato\u2019s world. It is a world you need to see with your own eyes in order to marvel at it. The book will be available at the Art Encounters Bookshop.<\/p>\n
C\u0103t\u0103lin Partenie teaches philosophy at the Faculty of Political Science of the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest. He studied philosophy at the universities of Bucharest, Oxford, Heidelberg and Glasgow. Together with Petru Cre\u021bia, he translated Plato\u2019s dialogues Timaeus<\/i> and Critias<\/i>. He has edited several volumes, including Plato. Selected Myths<\/i> (Oxford World\u2019s Classics) and Plato\u2019s Myths<\/i> (Cambridge University Press). His first novel, The Golden Lair<\/i>, received two awards and has been translated into Romanian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and German. Together with Bogdan Mure\u0219anu, he wrote the screenplay for the short film A Glass of Milk<\/i>, which premiered at the Serile Filmului Rom\u00e2nesc festival in Ia\u0219i in 2026.<\/p>\n