Timaeus of Locres

Timaeus of Locres or Timaeus of Locris or Timaeus of Locri or, in Latin, Timaeus Locrus was a Pythagorean philosopher living in the 5th century BC.

He features in Plato's Timaeus dialogue, where he is said to come from Locri in Italy.

He also appears as one of the speakers in Plato's Critias

Later references to Timaeus of Locres from Antiquity are by:

• Cicero, in his De re publica (I, X, 16), where he is described as an intimate of Plato
• Proclus, in his Commentary on Plato's Timaeus (II, 38, I)
• Simplicius and Diogenes Laertius, in their descriptions of, and commentaries on Aristotle's work

Some later commentators mention he might have been a character invented by Plato

References

• Timæus Locrus, Fragmenta et testimonia (Fragments and testimonies), commentary by Matthias Baltes - Über die Natur des Kosmos und der Seele / Timaeus Locrus ; Brill, 1972, xii-252 p. Coll. « Philosophia Antiqua ».