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Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. Campbell, Douglas R. "The Soul's Tomb: Plato on the Body as the Cause of Psychic Disorders," Apeiron 55 (1): 119–139. 2022. Cornford, Francis Macdonald (1997) [1935]. Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato, Translated with a Running Commentary.
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 ...
Timaeus of Locri (pronunciation in modern English / t aɪ ˈ m iː ə s /; Ancient Greek: Τίμαιος ὁ Λοκρός, romanized: Tímaios ho Lokrós; Latin: Timaeus Locrus) is a character in two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. In both, he appears as a philosopher of the Pythagorean school.
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 ...
Plato's Critias (111b) [1] Plato makes reference to great floods in several of his dialogues, including Timaeus , Critias , and Laws . In Timaeus (22) and in Critias (111–112) he describes the "great deluge of all", specifying the one survived by Deucalion and Pyrrha, as having been preceded by 9,000 years of history before the time of Solon ...
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]
Plato's theory of the reincarnation of the soul combined the ideas of Socrates and Pythagoras, mixing the divine privileges of men with the path of reincarnation between different animal species. He believed the human prize for the virtuous or the punishment for the guilty were not placed in different parts of the underworld but directly on Earth.
Commentaries on Plato refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works of Plato.Many Platonist philosophers in the centuries following Plato sought to clarify and summarise his thoughts, but it was during the Roman era, that the Neoplatonists, in particular, wrote many commentaries on individual dialogues of Plato ...