Timaeus (fifth century bc) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Locri, in Magna Graecia, now southern Italy. He was also a mathematician and astronomer. Plato studied with him while he was visiting ...

CARLOS STEEL, WHY SHOULD WE PREFER PLATO'S "TIMAEUS" TO ARISTOTLE'S "PHYSICS"? PROCLUS' CRITIQUE OF ARISTOTLE'S CAUSAL EXPLANATION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies ...

One may construe the Sethian Gnostic picture of the world and its origins as an interpretation of the biblical protology of the book of Genesis in the light of the Platonic distinction between an ...

In Timaeus, Critias claims to have heard the story of Atlantis from his grandfather, who in turn heard it from his father.