who is the author of the book mentioned above?
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mention a few mythologies on planet? The Greeks made each planet sacred to one among their pantheon of gods, the Olympians: Helios and Selene were the names of both planets and gods; Phainon was sacred to Cronus, the Titan who fathered the Olympians; Phaethon was sacred to Zeus who is the entity mentioned at last who was sacred to zeus? Phaethon was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios in Greek mythology. was he mentioned in any of plato's work? Yes - in Plato's dialogue 'Timaeus' what is that work about? Speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings in the dialogue, what are the properties mentioned in it for the universe? The four elements -earth, air, fire and water were shapeless, mixed and in constant motion. what was its influence later on? It influenced the construction of the creation accounts in the Book of Genesis.
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Timaeus (dialogue) [SEP] Later influence
Russell Gmirkin argues in his book, "Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts", that the "Timaeus" influenced the construction of the creation accounts in the Book of Genesis. He assigns a date for this activity at around 273 B.C. in his prior work "Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus" and places the creation process in the Library of Alexandria. The "Timaeus" was translated into Latin first by Marcus Tullius Cicero around 45 B.C. (sections 27d–47b), and later by Calcidius in the 4th century A.D. (up to section 53c). Cicero's fragmentary translation was highly influential in late antiquity, especially on Latin-speaking Church Fathers such as Saint Augustine who did not appear to have access to the original Greek dialogue.