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In Plato's Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes a new Timaeus scale structure. She finds the harmonic cosmos, mathematically, at 35 A-36 D, regarding the text as a number generator. Plato's primary number sequence, she argues, yields a matrix defining a sophisticated harmony of the spheres. She stresses the Decad as the pattern governing both human perception and the generation of all things, in the Timaeus, including the World Soul and musical scale symbolizing it. She precisely identifies Plato's fabric and its locus of severance and solves other thorny problems of textual interpretation.

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Donna M. Altimari Adler received her M.A. and Ph.D. (systematic and philosophical theology) from the University of Notre Dame. She is also a graduate of Northwestern University Law School and holds an M.A. (Divinity) and B.A. (Linguistics) from the University of Chicago. She has taught, in different capacities, at St. Xavier University, Loyola University, DePaul University, Benedictine University, and the Institute for Lay Formation of the University of St. Mary of the Lake, all in the Chicago area, and has contributed at numerous academic conferences. She is preparing other work for publication.

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