Timaeus

Proper noun

Meaning

A male given name from Ancient Greek.

One of the dialogues written by Athenian philosopher Plato around 360 BC.

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According to the references from Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, the island of Atlantis was the chosen domain of Poseidon. Source: Internet

As recounted by Timaeus, FrGrH 566, fr. 60. Archaeological attestation for so early a date is still wanting, though recent discoveries in situ may point nearly as far back in time. Source: Internet

Assuming that Ictis, Mictis and Corbulo are the same, Diodorus appears to have read Timaeus, who must have read Pytheas, whom Polybius also read. Source: Internet

He is said to have been magnanimous in his support of the poor; Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 73 severe in persecuting the overbearing conduct of the oligarchs ; Timaeus, ap. Source: Internet

In Plato 's philosophy (in particular, the Timaeus and the Philebus ), things were said to come into being in this world by the action of a demiurge who works to form chaos into ordered entities. Source: Internet

Because of his Neoplatonist background Julian accepted the creation of humanity as described in Plato's Timaeus. Source: Internet

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