Timaeus and Critias
by Plato, Plato, Gregory, Andrew
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
"Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos - the product of the rational thinking of a creator god and his astr…