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Timaeus

Plato’s dialogue on the creation of the cosmos by the demiurge, the most influential Platonic text in the Middle Ages.

Greek philosophy and Neoplatonism

The Timaeus presents a likely account of how the divine craftsman fashioned the cosmos, with its world soul, out of chaos after the eternal model. It was the only dialogue of Plato widely read in Latin in the early Middle Ages and shaped medieval cosmology.