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Timaeus (/ t aɪ ˈ m iː ə s /; Greek: Τίμαιος, translit. 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. The work puts forward reasoning on the possible nature of the physical world and human beings and is followed by the dialogue ...
Oct 25, 2005 · Plato’s Timaeus. First published Tue Oct 25, 2005; substantive revision Fri May 13, 2022. 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.
- Donald Zeyl, Barbara Sattler
- 2005
The world has received animals, mortal and immortal, and is fulfilled with them, and has become a visible animal containing the visible — the sensible God who is the image of the intellectual, the greatest, best, fairest, most perfect — the one only begotten heaven. Timaeus by Plato, part of the Internet Classics Archive.
The name brings to mind the notorious oligarch Critias: student of Socrates, uncle of Plato, and leader of the Thirty Tyrants. But the dialogue’s dramatic date suggests that we might be dealing with someone else. By most accounts, the dialogue takes place between 429 and 408 (see Dramatic Date and Setting).
Plato’s Timaeus. Plato’s. Timaeus. Persons in the dialogue: Socrates, Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias. 17A Socrates: One, two, three … but my dear Timaeus, where is the fourth of our banqueters from yesterday who will now provide the feast? Timaeus: Some illness has befallen him, Socrates, since he would not have missed this gathering ...
5 days ago · Timaeus 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.
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