Major Works
Timaeus
- Recommended translation: Timaeus, trans. Peter Kalkavage (Focus, 2001).Excerpt: Socrates One, two, three,—but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of our guests of yesterday, our hosts of today? Timaeus Some sickness has befallen him, Socrates; for he would never have stayed away from our gathering of his own free will.… More
Commentary
On Plato’s Timaeus and Timaeus’ Science Fiction
- Benardete, Seth, "On Plato's Timaeus and Timaeus' Science Fiction," Interpretation 2, no. 1, (Summer 1971), 21-65.Excerpt: (17a1-b4). Socrates counts out loud. He makes himself out to be somewhat ridiculous. He does not say, “There are three of you; there should be four.” Nor does he say, We are all here except so-and-so. Where is he Timaeus?” Socrates… MorePhysique et poesie dans le ‘Timee’ de Platon
- Hadot, Pierre, "Physique et poesie dans le 'Timee' de Platon," Revue de theologie et de philosophie 115 (1983), 113-33.Time in the Timaeus
- Brann, Eva, "Time in the Timaeus," The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings, Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2004, 273-77.Excerpt: In the dialogue named after him, Timaeus has the divine Craftsman, who is making the heavens, say: He thought of making a certain movable image of eternity, and, at once with ordering heaven, he made an eternal image going according to number, that… More