Plato's Timaeus Is a Dialogue

Socrates begins the timaeus by summarizing a discuss nhe and his colleagues have had on the previous day. What he says sounds suspiciously like the content of the republic. So this little group has already heard a depiction of the ideal city. This dialogue will fill out the picture, but paint on an even larger canvas. We will be shown the ideal order that reigns in the universe as a whole - not just in one city.