Test yourself on Timaeus: 30 quiz questions with the answer explained, and 40 flashcards on the characters, places, themes and turning points. Free, no sign-up.
What does Socrates ask to see after reviewing his ideal state?
Who recounts ancient Athens' victory over Atlantis?
Whose story does Critias recount?
Which city does Critias identify with Socrates' imagined city?
Where is Timaeus from?
How is Timaeus described?
What kind of account does Timaeus ask his listeners to accept?
What does the good maker use to bring disorder into order?
How is the universe presented?
How does the universe move?
What does God delegate after creating souls?
Which human gift connects divine ordering with human life?
Which set of subjects becomes connected in the creation account?
What does the speaker introduce before explaining change through triangles?
Which processes help explain bodily change?
Which kinds of causes does the account distinguish?
Who constructs bodily organs and divided souls?
What do safeguards in human construction restrain?
Which bodily regions belong to the account's inward focus?
What leads into the construction of organs and divided souls?
What does the account use to explain nourishment and aging?
Which pair is explained through bodily structures?
Which claim is complicated by the bodily explanation of mental illness?
What training does the account recommend near its end?
How does the ending explain the forms of other creatures?
What does the universe's inclusion of all creatures suggest?
What does balanced training suggest about human well-being?
What remains important when disorder has causes beyond deliberate intention?
What does the gods' establishment of life's goal connect?
What do bodily safeguards help explain beyond physical processes?
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