Introduction; Plato's Timaeus; The Platonic Tradition; Roman Philosophy; Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition; Chapter 1 The Setting: Plato's Timaeus; Dialogue Content; Methodology; An Interpretative Controversy; Demiurge, Cosmic Soul, and Lesser Divinities; Dualism; The Receptacle; Chapter 2 Cicero; Cicero's Plato and Platonism; Cicero the Translator; Translation and Rhetoric; Roman Translation and the Contest of Cultures

ConclusionBibliography; Editions and Translations of Plato's Timaeus; Editions of Cicero's Translation; Editions of Apuleius' Works; Editions and Translations of Calcidius' Translation and Commentary; Editions of Augustine's Works; Secondary Sources; Index Verborum Graecorum; Index Verborum Latinorum; Index Locorum; Subject Index