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	Plato. Greek Philosophers on cosmology and myth
		In Timaeus, the dialogue with his most elaborate presentation of a cosmogony, he does not let his teacher Socrates speak on the subject, but the Pythagorean philosopher Timaeus, who has given the dialogue its name.
		Timaeus starts by stating his opinion on a matter having been discussed by most of the philosophers — whether the world is created or not, eternal or with a beginning, and thereby a possible end.
		Timaeus does not name them, but to the Greeks the stars in question were no mystery.
	www.stenudd.com /myth/greek/plato.htm (1879 words)

	Timaeus (historian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Timaeus the historian is not to be confused with the Timaeus character appearing in Plato's Socratic dialogues
		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.
		Timaeus was one of the chief authorities used by Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch (in his life of Timoleon).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timaeus_(historian) (560 words)

	Timaeus
		Timaeus was bitterly attacked 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 and Agathocles, while loud in praise of his favourite Timoleon.
		Timaeus was one of the chief authorities used by Trogus Pompeius, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch in his life of Timoleon.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ti/Timaeus.html (318 words)

	Timaeus - LoveToKnow 1911
		250 B.C.), 1 Greek historian, was born at Tauromenium in Sicily.
		Timaeus also devoted much attention to chronology, and introduced the system of reckoning by Olympiads, with which he compared the years of the Attic archons, the Spartan ephors, and the priestesses of Argos.
		Although a pupil of Philiscus of Miletus, a disciple of Isocrates, Timaeus is a representative of the Asiatic style of Hegesias of 1 J. Sandys, c.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Timaeus (451 words)

	Timaeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Timaeus of Locri, the 5th-century Pythagorean philosopher, appearing in Plato's s Timaeus.
		Timaeus, the historian from Tauromenium in Sicily, born around 345 BC.
		The Legendary Dragon Timaeus, one of the Three Legendary Dragons from the Waking the Dragons arc in Yu-Gi-Oh!
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timaeus (127 words)

	Atlantis
		Timaeus and Critias, two of Plato's dialogues, are the most prominent ancient records which specifically refer to Atlantis.
		Timagenusthe Greek historian wrote of the war between Atlantis and Europe and said tribes in ancient France said that was their original home.
		The Basques of Spain, the Guals of France, the Celts of Scotland and Ireland, the tribes of the Canary and Azores islands, a tribe (Frysians) in Holland, and dozens of Indian tribes all speak of their origins in a large lost and sunken Atlantic land in which they all believe.
	www.earth-history.com /Atlantis (2063 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1130 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Suidas says that Timaeus, the Locrian [No. 2] wrote Mafl^cm/ca, but whether this was really the work of the Locrian or not, cannot be determined.
		486), and usually assigned to Timaeus of Tauromenium, is supposed by Goller to belong to the mathematician.
		Timagenes or Timogenes, of Miletus, an historian or an orator, wrote on the Pontic He-racleia and its distinguished men, in five books, and likewise epistles0 Besides these three persons, we have mention of a fourth (4), Timagenes, the Syrian, who wrote on the history of the Gauls.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3464.html (934 words)

	Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus
		His grandfather served in the war against Sertorius with Pompey, through whose influence be obtained the Roman citizenship; hence the name Pompeius, adopted as a token of gratitude to his benefactor.
		The work was based upon the writings of Greek historians, such as Theopompus (also the author of a Philippica), Ephorus, Timaeus, Polybius.
		His idea of history was more severe and less rhetorical than that of Sallust and Livy, whom he blamed for putting elaborate speeches into the mouths of the characters of whom they wrote.
	ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gn/Gnaeus_Pompeius_Trogus.html (392 words)

	Atlantike
		His work, a comment on Plato's Timaeus, is lost, but another ancient historian, Proclus, reports that Crantor traveled to Egypt and actually found columns with the history of Atlantis written in hieroglyphic characters.
		Another passage from Proclus' 5th century AD 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.
		The 4th century AD historian Ammianus Marcellinus, relying on a lost work by Timagenes, a historian writing in the 1st century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands.
	atlantike.blogspot.com /2006/08/atlantis-other-than-platos-timaeus-and.html (866 words)

	Nikias: Tragic Figure or Incompetent General? A Reconciliation Of The Various Traditions
		By becoming more familiar with the Western historians whom Plutarch cites in the beginning of his work, we might be able to discern whether Philistos or Timaeus was responsible for the material that differs from the work of Thucydides.
		Polybius wrote, ‘For while he [Timaeus] shows great ingenuity and audacity in attacking others, his own statements continually draw upon dreams, prodigies and unlikely stories: in a word he is a prey to ignoble superstition and old wives’ tales’ (Polybius, XII.24).
		Timaeus has also been cited as having ‘zeal’ as a Sicilian Greek as identified by Polybius, which may help us to fully understand his inclinations and perhaps more emphasis on the nature of Sicily itself.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7849/nikias.html (3814 words)

	A Manual of Greek Literature, page 389 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Timaeus wrote the history of Pyrrhus as a separate work,3 but as it falls within the time treated of in his general history, it may almost be regarded as an episode of the latter.
		The value and authority of Timaeus as an historian have been most vehemently attacked by Polybius in many parts of his work.
		Most of the charges of Polybius against Timaeus are unquestionably founded upon truth; but from the statements of other writers, and from the fragments which we possess of Timseus's own work, we are led to conclude that Polybius has greatly exaggerated the defects of Timaeus, and has omitted to mention his peculiar excellences.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /greek-lit/0402.html (317 words)

	Bullinger: Man of Reconcilliation
		The Study Guide's democratic upside is that the classical poets, orators, historians and philosophers, and the biblical canon, are no longer reserved for people of feudal or ecclesiastical rank, but accessible to all who wish to prepare their wits for a productive life as free citizens of the reformed city states.
		Peitho, in Timaeus' creation account, persuades the brute force of necessity - Ananke - to yield to her counsel; she also countervails the impact of chance and moderates the fickleness of what Plato terms "the errant cause" (Timaeus 47-48e).
		The influence of the Timaeus is not often demonstrable in theology.
	pages.slc.edu /~eraymond/reformation/three.html (4942 words)

	Theories about Atlantis - Crystalinks
		Timaeus begins with an introduction, followed by an account of the creations and structure of the universe and ancient civilizations.
		The historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote that "the intelligentsia of Alexandria considered the destruction of Atlantis a historical fact, described a class of earthquakes that suddenly, by a violent motion, opened up huge mouths and so swallowed up portions of the earth, as once in the Atlantic Ocean a large island was swallowed up.
		He tries to classify the Gallic tribes according to their origins and tells of one of these claiming that they were colonists who came there from a remote island.
	www.crystalinks.com /atlantistheories.html (3353 words)

	Timaeus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Timaeus, c.356-c.260 BC, Greek historian of Tauromenium (now Taormina), Sicily.
		Son of the tyrant of the city, he was banished by Agathocles either in 317 or 312 BC and lived for 50 years in Athens, where he wrote a history of his native land.
		Plato's Timaeus and the Song of Roland: remarks on Oxford Bodleian MS Digby 23.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-timaeus1.html (278 words)

	Truth, Lies and History in Plato's Timaeus-Critias
		Critias and Timaeus tell their stories in response to Socrates' request to be entertained in return for the entertainment he provided yesterday, which was an account of an ideal city very similar to that of the Republic.
		In Timaeus 19d-e Socrates asks for an encomium of his good citizens in action, but the sense, if any, in which he envisages such an encomium to be an imitative poem is not clear.
		The narratives of Timaeus and Critias are thus set up in comparison with, and, I would suggest, as a challenge to, those of the poets.
	www.dur.ac.uk /Classics/histos/1998/johansen.html (9982 words)

	Atlantis, lost sunken city
		In Timaeus Plato claims the history of Atlantis was preserved in the records of the Egyptian priesthood, and that Solon (c.
		In the dialogues Timaeus and Critias, Plato outlines his ideas on Mankind, society, history and their relationship to the Cosmos from a philosophical and theological perspective.
		And in the Timaeus again we have the notion of periodic destructions by natural cataclysm, followed by a slow redevelopment of civilisation...
	www.wrexhamparaskeptics.4t.com /atlantis.htm (2484 words)

	TIMAEUS (c. 345—c. 250... - Online Information article about TIMAEUS (c. 345—c. 250...
		Timaeus was bitterly attacked by other historians, especially by See also:
		charge against Timaeus is. that he wilfully distorted the truth, when influenced by personal considerations: thus, he was less than See also:
		life, was afterwards generally used by the Greek historians.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /THE_TOO/TIMAEUS_c_345c_250_Be_.html (624 words)

	Christian CADRE--Speeches in Acts
		Polybius severely attacked the works of Timaeus, noting that "Timaeus actually invents speeches." Polybius thought this intolerable, as it was the "peculiar function of history" to report what was actually spoken.
		The tragic poet should shrill and charm his audience for the moment by the versimilitude of the words he puts into his characters' mouths, but it is the task of the historian to instruct and convince for all time serious students by the truth of the facts and the speeches he narrates.
		Despite the obstacles facing ancient historians, a review of the 37 speeches in Polybius' surviving text by F.W. Walbank reveals that while Polybius may have summarized some of his speeches, he attempts to accurately record the contents of speeches.
	www.christiancadre.org /member_contrib/cp_acts.html (3805 words)

	Hellenistic Astrology [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Plato, for instance, demonstrates an awareness of divination by the stars in the Timaeus dialogue, in which the protagonist criticizes divination by the stars without the means of astronomical calculation (logizethai) and a model (mimêmaton) of the heavens:
		The Hellenistic text attributed to Timaeus Locrus, On the Nature of the World and the Soul, purports to be the original upon which Plato drew for his dialogue of his name.
		Astrological fragments of a writer "Timaeus Praxidas" date to the same period (early to middle first century B.C.E.), but there is little textual evidence to indicate that these are one and the same writer.
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/astr-hel.htm (19010 words)

	HPS Courses Spring 2000
		This course will deal with the reception of Plato's Timaeus, both as a hermeneutical strategy for a richer understanding of the text itself, and as a study of the process of cultural assimilation.
		We will use the Timaeus also as a window to 'survey' topics, such as the history of Neoplatonism and its impact on the Medieval tradition.
		Students will be asked to do research on an aspect of the Timaeus which is related to their specific interest (School of Chartres, medical tradition etc.), do a presentation and write up the paper at the end of the semester.
	www.nd.edu /~hps/s00_crs.html (929 words)

	new testament gospel quotes of Jesus made up
		Timaeus Certainly, and we will do all that we can; having been handsomely entertained by you yesterday, those of us who remain should be only too glad to return your hospitality.
		Timaeus We remember some of them, and you will be here to remind us of anything which we have forgotten: or rather, if we are not troubling you, will you briefly recapitulate the whole, and then the particulars will be more firmly fixed in our memories?
		Timaeus Yes, Socrates; and what you said of it was very much to our mind.
	www.medmalexperts.com /POCM/pagan_ideas_phony_quotes.html (4804 words)

	The lost Atlantis presented in Strange World section
		“Timaeus” continues: “But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.”
		The Greek historian Timagenus wrote of the war between Atlantis and Europe and said tribes in ancient France said that was their original home.
		The Basques of Spain, the Guals of France, the tribes of the Canary and Azores islands, a tribe in Holland, and dozens of Indian tribes all speak of their origins in a large lost and sunken Atlantic land in which they all believe.
	www.newsfinder.org /site/more/the_lost_atlantis (1741 words)

	Diodorus Siculus - Best of Sicily Magazine
		Realistically speaking, he was not the greatest of historians.
		The problem, as we have implied, is that Diodorus does not always differentiate historical events from historical legend, even though some historians of his era managed to do so.
		It's one thing to repeat that the mythical hero Heracles (Hercules) visited your hometown (Agyrium was east of Enna toward Mount Etna), but quite another to attribute actual events to people who could not possibly have been present to participate in them.
	www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art112.htm (472 words)

	55° South: Re: The start of the new millenium
		In the Timaeus Plato remarks that the father and creator made the world to be an image of the eternal gods.
		The Deuteronomic Historian, writing in the sixth century BCE, presents a clear view that the fidelity of the covenant community, often personified in the king, results in consequences that occur in time.
		The Deuteronomic Historian is writing in the time following the destruction of the southern kingdom, and of Solomon's Temple and the devastation of the city of Jerusalem by Babylon.
	www.sonoma.edu /people/poe/Excursus/Time/Time.htm (7252 words)

	A Tradition of Ancient Tourism in the Phlegraean Fields
		The other four accounts must be treated as a separate grroup because they have been shaped by a distinct pattern, absent from pseudo-Aristotle and Lycophron, which determines the sequence in which the elements of their descriptions are presented.
		There are other reasons as well why Lycus or Timaeus cannot be the source for pseudo-Justin and the Byzantine writers.
		A source of that kind, it goes without saying, could very well have drawn on Lycus or Timaeus for the part of its account that dealt with the description of the cave (as opposed to association of the cave with Aeneas).
	www.nsula.edu /campaniafelix/monti.htm (2442 words)

	World Mysteries - Mystic Places - Atlantis
		Timaeus and Critias, two of Plato's dialogues, are the only existing written records which specifically refer to Atlantis.
		All of the men, except for Timaeus, who take part in or are mentioned in Timaeus and Critias are known to have actually existed in ancient Greece.
		Dozens of historians and famous writers wrote about the Atlantis they believed existed, how the Myans and Aztecs had told their conquerors that they came from Atlantis and Mu, about ancient tablets photographed in Peru showing those two lost continents, Atlantis and Lemuria, and ancient maps clearly showing Atlantis.
	www.world-mysteries.com /mpl_10.htm (7805 words)

	Ancient Greek Online library \| Thucydides
		Thucydides (between 460 and 455 BC—circa 400 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens.
		The only major difference between Thucydides' history and that of a modern historian is that Thucydides' history includes lengthy speeches which, as he himself describes, were as best as could be remembered of what was said (or, perhaps, what he thought ought to have been said).
		Actors on the world stage who had read his work would all have been put on notice that someone would be scrutinizing their actions with a reporter's dispassion, rather than the mythmaker's and poet's compassion and thus consciously or unconsciously participating in the writing of it.
	www.greektexts.com /library/Thucydides (1205 words)

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