. . . one of the masterpieces of classical scholarship. . . . Contemporary work on the Timaeus will inevitably take Plato's Cosmology as its starting point. --Charles H. Kahn, University of Pennsylvania

An indispensable storehouse of information and analysis--essential reading nowadays just as in 1935, when it first appeared. . . . Plato's Cosmology continues to be the constant reference point of any serious study of the Timaeus . --John M. Cooper, Princeton University