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Timaeus

by Plato (428–348 BCE)

10 chapters, about 71,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. 2,900 words
2. Section 1. 12,800 words
3. Section 2. 3,800 words
4. Section 3. 5,600 words
5. Section 4. 2,200 words
6. Section 5. 900 words
7. Section 6. 1,500 words
8. Section 7. 800 words
9. Section 8. 8,300 words
10. TIMAEUS. 32,100 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Aeschylus
• Balance (metaphysics)
• Chaos (cosmogony)
• Cremation
• Cube
• Deme
• Earth (classical element)
• Evaporation
• Fire
• Fire (classical element)
• Fire (wuxing)
• Heracles
• Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)
• Libya
• Passions of the Soul
• Psychiatry
• Qalb
• Second
• Triangle
• Water (classical element)

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