Timaeus 360 BCEPlato’s Timaeus is often viewed as a pioneering work of philosophy, but debates persist over whether it contains pre-Platonic knowledge.Scholars suggest it may synthesize: Pythagorean Mathematics, Egyptian Mysticism, Orphic & Vedic Thought, Atlantean Memory, and Esoteric Wisdom.Some believe the Timaeus originates older than Plato due to it's more archaic form of Greek.