Since Plato's Timaeus dwelt upon the great antiquity of the Egyptian teachings upon which the philosopher purported to draw, scholars were willing to accept that these texts were the sources of Greek ideas.
The Timaeus of Plato in the Latin version of Chalcidius was known to him as to his contemporaries and predecessors, and probably he had access to translations of the Phaedo and Meno.
W. Hamilton indicated the similarities of Plutarch's account on "the great continent" and Plato's location of Atlantis in Timaeus 24E – 25A.
Thierry was a major figure in twelfth-century philosophy and learning, and, like many twelfth-century scholars, is notable for his embrace of Plato's Timaeus and his application of philosophy to theological issues.
Timaeus of Locri, the 5th-century (BC) Pythagorean philosopher, appearing in Plato's dialogue
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Timaeus the Sophist, Roman-era writer who wrote a Lexicon of Platonic words
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Timaeus, Greek historian who has studied rhetoric under a pupil of Isocrates (b. c. 345 BC)
In Plato's Timaeus, Timaeus says that because the Bronze race of Humans had been making wars constantly Zeus got angered and decided to punish humanity by a flood.
Using The Sphinx as his starting point, Wilson explores the ramifications of an alternate time-line for the development of mankind, arguing that an advanced civilisation or civilisations existed in traditionally pre-historic times, in particular, the fabled Atlantis mentioned by Greek philosopher Plato in his work Timaeus.
In the comic book Yu-Gi-Oh! by Shonen Jump, Hermocrates (here named Hermos) is one of the three warriors of Atlantis turned into dragons along with Critias and Timaeus in the Waking the Dragons arc of the series.
There are myths and theories to the same effect in other dialogues, the Phaedrus, Meno, Phaedo, Timaeus and Laws.
It is probable that it passed under the authority of Agathocles, who drove the historian Timaeus into exile; and some time after this it was subject to a domestic despot of the name of Tyndarion, who was contemporary with Hicetas of Syracuse and Phintias of Agrigentum.