Dialogue

Timaeus

Plato · tr. R. G. Bury

Year 360 BCE

Tradition Ancient Greek

Era Classical

Language Greek, with Bury's English (1929)

“One, two, three,—but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of our guests of yesterday, our hosts of today?”

Timaeus tells how the Constructor made the cosmos a living creature, with soul and reason.