“The ... book [is] perhaps the most acutely argued and intelligent treatment extant of the consequences of a literal view of the Timaeus – that is, a view which accepts the existence of the Demiurge, and the reality of a temporal creation of the world, with which existence is bound up. As one who does not accept this view of the Timaeus, I find myself nevertheless able to applaud the acuity with which Mohr pursues its implications, frequently setting right in the process such giants of Platonic scholarship as Cornford, Cherniss, Vlastos and Owen, as well as other very competent authorities such as J.B. Skemp, T. M. Robinson (his own teacher), Hans Herter or Leonardo Taran. ... Mohr does a great service ... in exposing these difficulties with intelligence and clarity.”