Timaeus
Benjamin Jowett (1871)
Plato's Timaeus (c. 360 BC) is his great cosmological dialogue, in which the Pythagorean Timaeus delivers a 'likely account' of the creation of the ordered universe by a divine craftsman, the Demiurge, who fashions the cosmos as a living being on the model of the eternal Forms. Ranging over the world-soul, the four elements and their geometry, time, and the human body, it was the most influential of Plato's works in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The translation is Benjamin Jowett's.
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