Timaeus
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1892
First written c. 360 BCE
In the public domain
About this text
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.
How to cite
Plato. Timaeus: In The Dialogues of Plato, third edition. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1892.
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