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Timaeus (/taɪˈmiːəs/; Ancient Greek: Τίμαιος, romanized: Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of long monologues

of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias. In both, he appears as a philosopher of the Pythagorean school. If there ever existed a historical Timaeus of

occasionally combine both Timaeus and Critias as Timaeus-Critias. Timaeus Unlike the other speakers of the Critias, it is unclear whether Timaeus is a historical

nêsos, lit. 'island of Atlas') is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations. Creating

anything else, but itself by itself with itself," (211b). And in the Timaeus Plato writes: "Since these things are so, we must agree that which keeps its

ignorance rather than malice. Plato, as the speaker Timaeus, refers to the Demiurge frequently in the Socratic dialogue Timaeus (28a ff.), c. 360 BC. The

the Timaeus and Statesman, feature him speaking only rarely. Leo Strauss notes that Socrates' reputation for irony casts doubt on whether Plato's Socrates

Timaeus (or Timaios) is a Greek name. It may refer to: Timaeus (dialogue), a Socratic dialogue by Plato Timaeus of Locri, 5th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher

cosmological frameworks throughout history. In ancient philosophy, Plato's dialogue Timaeus introduces the universe as a living creature endowed with a soul

philosophy by Plato to designate a receptacle (as a "third kind" [triton genos]; Timaeus 48e4), a space, a material substratum, or an interval. In Plato's account