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Timaeus
Plato · Classical · c. 360 BCE
Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
13 chapters
Plato's cosmological dialogue — the creation of the world, the Demiurge, and the nature of space and time.
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Contents
- 1Opening Dialogue and Recap
- 2The Story of Atlantis
- 3Being and Becoming
- 4The World Soul
- 5Time and the Heavenly Bodies
- 6The Creation of Mortal Beings
- 7The Human Body and Its Structure
- 8Necessity and the Receptacle
- 9Varieties of the Elements
- 10The Geometric Nature of the Elements
- 11Sensation and Perception
- 12Diseases of Body and Soul
- 13The Nature of Animals and Conclusion
