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Hermocrates (dialogue)
''Hermocrates'' (; (ギリシア語:Ἑρμοκράτης)) is a hypothetical dialogue, assumed to be the third part of Plato's late trilogy along with ''Timaeus'' and ''Critias''. Since Plato never completed the ''Critias'' for an unknown reason, it is generally assumed that he never began writing the ''Hermocrates''. In any case, the persons that would have appeared are very likely be the same as in the former dialogues – Timaeus, Critias, Hermocrates, and Socrates – and the unnamed fourth companion mentioned at the beginning of the ''Timaeus'' might have unveiled his identity. The intention of Plato to write this third dialogue becomes evident among others, from the following passage of Critias:
Hermocrates had only a small share of the conversation in the previous dialogues. Since the ''Critias'' recounted the story of the ideal state in ancient Athens of nine thousand years ago – and why it was able to repel the invasion by the imperialist naval power Atlantis – by referring to prehistoric accounts via Solon and the Egyptians, it might have been Hermocrates' task to tell how the imperialist naval power, into which Athens of Plato's lifetime had turned, had suffered a bitter defeat in the Sicilian expedition against Syracuse and eventually in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta – since he was a Syracusan ''strategos'' during the time of the Sicilian expedition. The sequence of names of the three participants in these dialogues could also have a significance. The name of Timaeus is derived from the Greek word τιμάω, ''timaō'' meaning to pay honor to; the name of Critias is derived from the word κρίσις, ''krisis'' meaning judgment; and the name of Hermocrates, means gifted by Hermes, messenger of the gods.
==In popular culture==
In the video game ''Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis'' the Lost Dialogue of Plato is known as the ''Hermocrates''. In the game, the book was actually existent in an English manuscript, translated by one of the characters, and was an important tool for Dr. Jones throughout the game.
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