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Timaeus (/ t aɪ ˈ m iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Τίμαιος, romanized: Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of long monologues given by Critias and Timaeus, written c. 360 BC.
1-200 AD: Politicus 257B, 261D-262C: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library Papyrus 187 : 1-250 AD: Laches 181a8-182a4: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library Papyrus 2048 : 100-300 AD: Phaedrus: Digitised Manuscripts, British Library P.Oxy.LII 3667 : 200-300 AD: Alcibiades II 142 B-143 C: Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford P.Oxy.XV 1808 ...
In Plato's works, Timaeus appears as a wealthy aristocrat from the Greek colony of Lokroi Epizephyrioi (present-day Locri in Calabria) in Magna Graecia, who had served in high offices in his native town before coming to Athens, where the dialogue of Timaeus is set. Plato does not explicitly label Timaeus a Pythagorean, but leaves enough hints ...
Calcidius' translation of Plato's original Greek dialogue covers the sections 17a – 53c, i.e. from the Introduction where Critias discusses the story of Solon's journey to Egypt where he hears the tale of Atlantis, up to the discussion of the 'Receptacle' and the Divine Creator's use of four of the five regular solids (fire, earth, air and water) in the shaping of the Universe.
Plato advocates a belief in the immortality of the soul, and several dialogues end with long speeches imagining the afterlife. In the Timaeus, Socrates locates the parts of the soul within the human body: Reason is located in the head, spirit in the top third of the torso, and the appetite in the middle third of the torso, down to the navel ...
[1] Plato's Timaeus describes this living cosmos as being built by the demiurge, [2] constructed to be self-identical and intelligible to reason, [3] according to a rational pattern expressed in mathematical principles and Pythagorean ratios describing the structure of the cosmos, and particularly the motions of the seven classical planets. [4]
The Symposium of Plato The Fourth Gospel and the Logos-Doctrine Robert Gregg Bury ( / ˈ b j ʊər i / ; 22 March 1869 – 11 February 1951) was an Irish Anglican clergyman , classicist , philologist , and a translator of the works of Plato and Sextus Empiricus into English.
Timaeus created the lexicon on the basis of older Plato commentaries, which have not been preserved. He gives his name in the dedication letter. He dedicates the work to a friend, an otherwise unknown Roman, for whom the Greek name forms Gaiatianos and Gaitianos have been handed down; he may have been called Caietanus, Gentianus or Gratianus.