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Timaeus

In The Dialogues of Plato, third edition

By Plato

First written c. 360 BCE

About this book

Jowett’s translation of the Timaeus, Plato’s account of the making of the cosmos by a divine craftsman looking to the eternal Forms, the world-soul, and time as the moving image of eternity; the most influential of his dialogues in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The edition

Title
Timaeus: In The Dialogues of Plato, third edition
Translated by
Benjamin Jowett
Publisher
Clarendon Press, Oxford
Year
1892

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Period

Axial Age800 BCE to 200 BCE

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