According to Alexander of Alexandria, he remained in schism during the episcopates of three bishops, Domnus, Timaeus and Cyril, whose administration extended from 268 to 303.

Plato's account of Atlantis may have also inspired parodic imitation: writing only a few decades after the Timaeus and Critias, the historian Theopompus of Chios wrote of a land beyond the ocean known as Meropis.

The German company Jordan & Timaeus sold the first known chocolate bar made from cocoa, sugar and goat's milk in 1839.

The central poem of Book III is a summary of Proclus ' Commentary on the Timaeus, and Book V contains the important principle of Proclus that things are known not according to their own nature, but according to the character of the knowing subject.

The Timaeus of Plato in the Latin version of Chalcidius was known to him as to his contemporaries and predecessors, and probably he had access to translations of the Phaedo and Meno.

But while there is no proof for Timaeus to be historical, there is also no proof that he did not exist, since little is known of the history of the Italian city of Locri.

This figure is commonly known as the demiurge, after the figure in Plato's Timaeus.

A 15th-century Latin translation of Plato's Timaeus

Volume 3, pages 32-33, of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing a passage of Timaeus with the Latin translation and notes of Jean de Serres

Timaeus of Locri (; Latin: Timaeus Locrus ) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher living ca.

* Cicero's Timaeus in Latin

The Timaeus begins with an introduction, followed by an account of the creations and structure of the universe and ancient civilizations.

Another passage from Proclus ' commentary on the Timaeus gives a description of the geography of Atlantis: That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea.

Hellenistic etiology connects the name with Galatia ( first attested by Timaeus of Tauromenion in the 4th c. BC ), and it was suggested the association was inspired by the " milk-white " skin ( γάλα, gala, " milk ") of the Gauls ( Greek: Γαλάται, Galatai, Galatae ).

Plotinus, for example, attacked the Gnostics for vilifying Plato's ontology of the universe contained in Timaeus, and the universes ' creation by the demiurge.

In Plato's philosophy ( in particular, the Timaeus and the Philebus ), things were said to come into being in this world by the action of a demiurge who works to form chaos into ordered entities.

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod has in his account of the birth of the gods and creation of the world ( i. e., in his Theogony ) that Chaos begot the primordial deities: Eros, Gaia ( Earth ) and Tartarus, who begot Erebus ( Darkness ) and Nyx ( Night ), and Plato echoes this genealogy in the Timaeus 40e, 41e where the familiar Titan and Olympian gods are sired by Heaven and Earth.

The person of َ Alyssa can be traced to references by Roman historians to lost writings of Timaeus of Tauromenium in Sicily ( c. 356 – 260 BC ).

Centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his Rhomaike Archaiologia ( Antiquitates romanae, " Roman Antiquities "), quoting Antioch of Syracuse states that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and retells this account that Italia was named after him, alongside the other account that Italia derives its name from a word for calf, an etymology also stated by Timaeus, Varro ( Rerum Rusticarum, 2. 5 ), and Festus.

The Timaeus, a Socratic dialogue written by Plato, mirrors that identification with Athena, possibly as a result of the identification of both goddesses with war and weaving.

Timaeus devoted much attention to chronology, and introduced the system of reckoning by Olympiads.

Timaeus was highly criticized by other historians, especially by Polybius, and indeed his unfairness towards his predecessors, which gained him the nickname of Epitimaeus ( fault-finder ), laid him open to retaliation.

The most serious charge against Timaeus is that he wilfully distorted the truth, when influenced by personal considerations: thus, he was less than fair to Dionysius I of Syracuse and Agathocles, while loud in praise of his favourite Timoleon.

Timaeus was one of the chief authorities used by Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch ( in his life of Timoleon ).

Inspired by Plato's Republic and the description of Atlantis in Timaeus, it describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common.

Donnelly suggested that Atlantis, whose story was told by Plato in the dialogues of Timaeus and Critias, had been destroyed during the same event remembered in the Bible as the Great Flood.

The word ὑποτείνουσα was used for the hypotenuse of a triangle by Plato in the Timaeus ( dialogue ) 54d and by many other ancient authors.

* Philo himself had been influenced by Plato ’ s Timaeus, in which Plato called the logos “ the image of God ” and “ the second God ”.

The Critias character in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias is often identified as the son of Callaeschrus – but not by Plato.

The Mount may be the Mictis of Timaeus, mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia ( IV: XVI. 104 ), and the Ictis of Diodorus Siculus.

The Soul is constructed through certain proportions, described mathematically in the Timaeus, which allow it to make Body as a divided image of its own arithmetical and geometrical ideas.

Atlantis ( in Greek,, " island of Atlas ") is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC.

Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis.

Plato introduced Atlantis in Timaeus:

The four persons appearing in those two dialogues are the politicians Critias and Hermocrates as well as the philosophers Socrates and Timaeus of Locri, although only Critias speaks of Atlantis.

According to Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, he visited Neith's temple at Sais and received from the priests there an account of the history of Atlantis.

* Plato writes the dialogues Timaeus and Critias, first mentioning Atlantis.

Inspiration for the mythology in the game, such as the description of the city and the appearance of the metal orichalcum, was primarily drawn from Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, and from Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World that revived interest in the myth during the nineteenth century.

W. Hamilton indicated the similarities of Plutarch's account on " the great continent " and Plato's location of Atlantis in Timaeus 24E – 25A.

Plato's Atlantis described in Timaeus and Critias ( dialogue ) | Critias

Thus they assume that it is the tyrant's grandfather who appears in both Timaeus and Critias, and his own grandfather, who was told the Atlantis story by Solon.

Plato's Atlantis described in Timaeus ( dialogue ) | Timaeus and Critias

Plato's Atlantis described in Timaeus and Critias

Location hypotheses of Atlantis are various proposed real-world settings for the legendary island of Atlantis, ( Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος ) described as a lost civilization mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 B. C.