Tim. All men, Socrates, who have any degree of right feeling, at the beginning of every enterprise, whether small or great, always call upon God. And we, too, who are going to discourse of the nature of the universe, how created or how existing without creation, if we be not altogether out of our wits, must invoke the aid of Gods and Goddesses and pray that our words may be acceptable to them and consistent with themselves. Let this, then, be our invocation of the Gods, to which I add an exhortation of myself to speak in such manner as will be most intelligible to you, and will most accord with my own intent.
Jowett: TIM 27c-92c -— Exposição de Timeu.
- Lopes – Introdução ao Timeu
- Lopes (Timeu) – Aspectos extra-textuais do Timeu
- sphaira
- TIM 17a-27b: Prólogo
- TIM 17b-19b: O Estado ideal
- TIM 19b-20c: O Estado ideal em ação
- TIM 20c-21d: A gesta dos atenienses
- TIM 21e-23c: A narração de Sólon; suas fontes
- TIM 23d-24d: Atenas, a antiga
- TIM 24e-25d: Luta de Atenas contra Atlântida