Timaeus

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Platonic dialogue philosophical work

Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.

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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Timaeus canonical 13
Plato's Timaeus 3
Timaeus (dialogue) 3

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Platonic dialogue ⓘ
philosophical work ⓘ
author Plato ⓘ
centralConcept Demiurge ⓘ
Platonism ⓘ
surface form: Platonic Forms

four elements ⓘ
receptacle ⓘ
world soul ⓘ
cosmologicalModel geocentric universe ⓘ
living cosmos as a single animal ⓘ
dialogueForm monologue by Timaeus ⓘ
featuresCharacter Critias ⓘ
Hermocrates ⓘ
Socrates ⓘ
genre philosophical dialogue ⓘ
influenced Christian theology ⓘ
Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ
Islamic philosophy ⓘ
Middle Platonism ⓘ
Neoplatonism ⓘ
Renaissance philosophy ⓘ
medieval cosmology ⓘ
language Ancient Greek ⓘ
mainCharacter Timaeus of Locri ⓘ
openingContext follow-up to the Republic’s ideal city ⓘ
period 4th century BCE ⓘ
philosophicalTheme mathematical structure of reality ⓘ
relationship between reason and necessity ⓘ
status of likely stories ⓘ
philosophicalTradition Platonism ⓘ
relatedWork Critias ⓘ
Parmenides ⓘ
Republic ⓘ
Sophists ⓘ
surface form: Sophist
setting Athens ⓘ
structure account of the human body ⓘ
account of the world soul ⓘ
cosmological myth ⓘ
prologue with Socrates ⓘ
subject cosmology ⓘ
creation of the universe ⓘ
divine craftsman ⓘ
elements and geometrical atoms ⓘ
nature of the physical world ⓘ
order of the universe ⓘ
soul of the world ⓘ
structure of the cosmos ⓘ
teleology ⓘ
time and eternity ⓘ

Referenced by (25)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Plato → notableWork → Timaeus ⓘ
Phaedo → partOf → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Platonic corpus
Platonism → associatedWork → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plato's Timaeus
Ion → partOf → Timaeus ⓘ
subject surface form: Ion (dialogue)
this entity surface form: Platonic corpus
Socratic dialogues of Plato → includesWork → Timaeus ⓘ
Atlantis → appearsInWork → Timaeus ⓘ
Plato's dialogue "Parmenides" → relatedWorkByPlato → Timaeus ⓘ
subject surface form: Parmenides (dialogue)
On the Creation (De opificio mundi) → influencedBy → Timaeus ⓘ
late Plato → includesDialogue → Timaeus ⓘ
subject surface form: Late Plato
Enneads → relatedWork → Timaeus ⓘ
Platonic corpus → containsWork → Timaeus ⓘ
Thrasyllan tetralogies → includesWork → Timaeus ⓘ
Critias → appearsIn → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plato’s dialogue Timaeus
Stephanus pagination → citesWork → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plato's Timaeus
Hermocrates → mentionedIn → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plato’s dialogue Timaeus
Demiurge → describedIn → Timaeus ⓘ
Demiurge → characterIn → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Platonic dialogue Timaeus
Timaeus of Locri → centralRoleInWork → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Timaeus (dialogue)
Timaeus of Locri → appearsInWork → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Timaeus (dialogue)
World Soul → influencedBy → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Timaeus (dialogue)
Late dialogues of Plato → includesWork → Timaeus ⓘ
Ficino's Latin translation of Plato → includesDialogue → Timaeus ⓘ
writings of Plato → containsWork → Timaeus ⓘ
writings of Plato → containsWork → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Timaeus–Critias
Pythagorean harmony of the spheres → influencedWork → Timaeus ⓘ
this entity surface form: Plato's Timaeus