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.

Oct 25, 2005 · In the Timaeus Plato presents an elaborately wrought account of the formation of the universe and an explanation of its impressive order and beauty. The universe, he proposes, is the product of rational, purposive, and beneficent agency. It is the handiwork of a divine Craftsman (“Demiurge,” dêmiourgos, 28a6) who, imitating an unchanging and eternal model, imposes mathematical order on a ...

Pseudo-Timaios of Locri, On the Nature of the World and the Soul in a manuscript in the possession of Cardinal Bessarion.Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Gr. 517, fol. 4r (fifteenth century) A work in Doric Greek entitled On the Nature of the World and the Soul (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φύσιος κόσμω καὶ ψυχᾶς, romanized: Peri phýsios kósmō kai psychās), also ...

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Timaeus (or Timaios) is a Greek name. It may refer to: Timaeus, a Socratic dialogue by Plato; Timaeus of Locri, 5th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher, appearing in Plato's dialogue; Timaeus (historian) (c. 345 BC-c. 250 BC), Greek historian from Tauromenium in Sicily

Plato: The Timaeus There is nothing easy about the Timaeus.Its length, limited dramatic discourse, and arid subject-matter make for a dense and menacing work. But make no mistake, it is a menacing work of great subtly and depth.

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Socrates. One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to-day? Timaeus. He has been taken ill, Socrates; for he would not willingly have been absent from this gathering. Soc. Then, if he is not coming, you and the two others must supply his place. Tim.

Dec 1, 1998 · "Timaeus" by Plato is a philosophical dialogue most likely written in the 4th century BC. It is a foundational text of Western philosophy, exploring themes of cosmology, metaphysics, and the nature of the universe.

Timaeus (born c. 350 bc, Tauromenium, Sicily [now Taormina, Italy]—died after 264) was a Greek historian whose writings shaped the tradition of western Mediterranean history.. Expelled from Sicily by Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, about 315 bc, Timaeus went to Athens, where he studied rhetoric under Isocrates’ pupil Philiscus of Miletus and passed 50 years of his life.