Timée de Locres would be a Philosophe Pythagoricien which would have lived at fifth century BC.

Our only source of information on its life is Plato, Timée, 20a:

“Socrate: (…) Indeed, Timée that here, which comes from the city organized so well of Locres in Italy, where, by fortune and the birth, it is not lower than anybody, was seen in its city entrusting the highest loads and decreeing more the great honors; moreover, it is, with my direction, high at the tops of philosophy in its unit. ”

(translation Luc Brisson, GF, 1996)

He is also an interlocutor of the dialog of Plato on the Atlantis, the Critias

Cicéron reports that he was a close friend of Plato:

“Undoubtedly you learned, Tubéron, that after the death of Socrate, Plato went initially to Egypt to inform itself there, then in Italy and Sicily, in order to all learn from discovered from Pythagore. It is there that he lived a long time in the intimacy of Archytas de Tarente and of Timée de Locres, and had the chance to get the Commentaires of Philolaos. ” ( Republic , I, X, 16)

Timée would have developed its thought following Occelos (Proclos, Commentaire on Timée of Plato , II, 38, I). There remain to us fragments which reached us under his name, but which is regarded as forgery. Plato perhaps invented this philosopher. The “catalog” of Jamblique mentions Timée of Crotona or Paros which could be the same one.

According to Simplicius de Cilicie ( Comment on the Treaty of the sky of Arisote , 269,16), Timée, affirmed that “the world is generated, since it is sensitive, and it poses in theory that the sensitive one is generated and the understandable one inengendré. ”

Works

• Of animated mundi and will natura

• Mathématiques
• Of nature