Timaios

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This text is extracted from Cornford's longer Plato's Cosmology.Timaeus (c. 360 BCE) is one of Plato's dialogs, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world & human beings. It's followed by the dialog Critias. Speakers are Socrates, Timaeus of Locri, Hermocrates & Critias. Some believe that it isn't the Critias of the Thirty Tyrants who appears, but his grandfather of the same name. The dialog takes place the day after Socrates described his ideal state.