Explore Plato’s Timaeus with expert guidance .
This scholarly edition offers a deep, accessible path into the dialogue and its core ideas.
This edition presents the Timaeus with a thoughtful introduction and detailed notes, helping readers understand Plato’s cosmology, the nature of space and soul, and the question of form and becoming. It addresses how the dialogue uses myth and allegory, and what that means for interpreting Plato’s theory of reality.
- A clear introduction that frames the dialogue’s questions and its significance in Platonic philosophy
- Scholarly notes that illuminate key terms, passages, and the text’s argumentative structure
- Explanations of central concepts such as space, the soul, multiplicity, and the idea of a copy or image
- An index and discussion that connect the Timaeus to broader debates in ancient thought
Ideal for students and general readers interested in Plato, ancient philosophy, and the history of cosmology and metaphysics.