Primary Literature

• Archer-Hind, R. D. (ed. and trans.), 1888, The Timaeus of Plato, London: McMillan & Co.; reprinted, Salem, NH: Ayers Co. Publishers, 1988. (Scholar)
• Burnet, J. (ed.), 1902, Platonis Opera, vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Bury, R. G. (ed. and trans.), 1960, Plato: Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles, Cambridge, Mass.: Loeb Classical Library. (Scholar)
• Cornford, F. M., 1937, Plato’s Cosmology, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; reprinted, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1997. (Scholar)
• Lee, D. (trans.), 1972, Timaeus and Critias, London: Penguin Books; revised by T. K. Johansen, 2008. (Scholar)
• Waterfield, R. (trans.), 2008, Timaeus and Critias (with introduction and notes by A. Gregory), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Secondary Literature

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• Brague, R., 1982, Du temps chez Platon et Aristote. Quatre études, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. (Scholar)
• Brandwood, L., 1990, The Chronology of Plato’s Dialogues, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2000, Plato the Myth Maker (translated, edited and with an introduction by G. Naddaf), Chicago: Chicago University Press. (Scholar)
• Broadie, S., 2012, Nature and Divinity in Plato’s Timaeus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Burnyeat, M. F., 1999, “Plato on Why Mathematics is Good for the Soul,” in Mathematics and Necessity: Essays in the History of Philosophy, Proceedings of the British Academy 103, T. Smiley (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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• Cherniss, H. F., 1944, Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato and the Academy, vol. 1, Baltimore. (Scholar)
• –––, 1965, “The Relation of the Timaeus to Plato’s Later Dialogues,” in Studies in Plato’s Metaphysics, R. E. Allen (ed.), London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul; reprinted in Selected Papers, L. Tarán (ed.), Leiden: Brill, 1977. (Scholar)
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• Frede, D., 1996, “The Philosophical Economy of Plato’s Psychology: Rationality and Common Concepts in the Timaeus,” in Rationality in Greek Thought, M. Frede and G. Striker (eds.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Gill, C., 1979, “Plato’s Atlantis Story and the Birth of Fiction,” Philosophy and Literature, 3: 64–78. (Scholar)
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• Kung, J., 1989, “Mathematics and Virtue in Plato’s Timaeus,” in Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, vol. 3, J. P. Anton and A. Preus (eds.), Albany: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Ledger, G. R., 1989, Re-counting Plato: A Computer Analysis of Plato’s Style, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Lee, E. N., 1976, “Reason and Rotation: Circular Movement as the Model of Mind (Noûs) in the Later Plato,” in Facets of Plato’s Philosophy, W. H. Werkmeister (ed.), Assen: Van Gorcum. (Scholar)
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• Morrow, G., 1965, “Necessity and Persuasion in Plato’s Timaeus,” in Studies in Plato’s Metaphysics, R. E. Allen (ed.), London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
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