| Timaeus did not restrict his treatment to Sicily but dealt with the whole west including Carthage. |
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| Among his most prized possessions were his books of Plato, including the Timaeus in which the mathematical ratios of the golden section are described. |
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| The explorer Fridtjof Nansen explains this apparent fantasy of Pytheas as a mistake of Timaeus. |
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| Strabo and Diodorus Siculus never saw Pytheas' work, says Nansen, but they and others read of him in Timaeus. |
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| Although it is not certain, Posidonius may have written a commentary on Plato's Timaeus. |
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| In Plato's Timaeus and Critias, the island of Atlantis was Poseidon's domain. |
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| References from the Greek writer Timaeus indicate that the Celts may have had a set of horse twins as well. |
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| Assuming that Ictis, Mictis and Corbulo are the same, Diodorus appears to have read Timaeus, who must have read Pytheas, whom Polybius also read. |
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| This passage looks almost like an intentional illustration of selections from Plato's Timaeus, or from Plotinus's Enneads, commenting on it. |
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| Timaeus converted days to stadia at the rate of 1,000 per day, a standard figure of the times. |
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| When Plato does generate a musical scale of his own at Timaeus 35b ff. |
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| The former maintains that the traditional chronology of the Timaeus corroborates the argument in favor of the tripartition of the soul in the Laws. |
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| If one presumes that Pytheas would not have written before reaching age 20, he would have been a contemporary and competitor of Timaeus and Dicaearchus. |
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