Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xiii
4. Preface xvii
5. Note on Translations xxiii
6. 1 One, Two, Three 1
7. 2 Emulator of Homer 6
8. 3 Pythagorean and Socratic 12
9. 4 Parens, fabricator, artifex 14
10. 5 Descendants and Intermediaries 19
11. 6 Rachel’s Beauty 22
12. 7 The Lilies of the Field 30
13. 8 ‘Mira profunditas’ 37
14. 9 Compunction and Transfiguration 43
15. 10 ‘O qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas’ 48
16. 11 Beauty 53
17. 12 Metaphorá 62
18. 13 Integumenta; Esthétique du Timée 67
19. 14 The Three Days 76
20. 15 Towards the altitudo terribilis 81
21. 16 The Names of God 92
22. 17 Decor, altitudo, gloria 98
23. 18 Philomythía and Poetry 102
24. 19 ‘I love those who love me’ 108
25. 20 ‘What Timaeus argues about the souls’ 121
26. 21 ‘The hall-mark of genius’ 130
27. 22 ‘We must lose ourselves’ 133
28. 23 ‘Those things that cannot die and those that can’ 136
29. 24 ‘To new loves Love Eternal opened out’ 140
30. 25 ‘That deep mind’ 145
31. 26 ‘Amor quo caelum regitur’ 148
32. 27 ‘He laughed, self-mockingly’ 152
33. 28 ‘This reason moved Augustine’ 156
34. 29 ‘Fountain of light, seedbed of life’ 161
35. 30 ‘Beings and accidents and modes of life’ 165
36. 31 The Moon Smiles Among the Eternal Nymphs 168
37. 32 ‘Splendour of God!’ 174
38. 33 ‘The beauty I saw’ 177
39. 34 Neptune and Lethargy 182
40. 35 The Last Simile: The Geometer 190
41. 36 Epilogue 193
42. 37 Afterword: The Unmoved Mover Begins to Move 213
43. Appendix. The Timaeus 231
44. sigla 309
45. abbreviations 311
46. notes 313
47. further reading 351
48. Illustration Credits 355
49. INDEX OF NAMES 359
50. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 365