 His tribute to the mixed beauty of the sensible world, in Timaeus, consists in his depiction of it as the outcome of divine efforts to mold reality in the image of the forms, using simple geometrical patterns and harmonious arithmetic relations as building blocks. The desire to transform human relations is given expression in a far larger number of works. Socrates presents himself, in Plato’s Apology, as a man who does not have his head in the clouds (that is part of Aristophanes’ charge against him in Clouds). He does not want to escape from the everyday world but to make it better (see Allen 2010). He presents himself, in Gorgias, as the only Athenian who has tried his hand at the true art of politics.