Plato's influence is more apparent in religion. Not only in…

Plato's influence is more apparent in religion. Not only in Christianity but more directly in other groups from late antiquity, such as the gnostics and the hermeticists, who lift their creation myths from Plato's Timeus. However, Plato does not claim to know anything about the creation of the world. His mythologizing is explicitly made-up. In the case of the Timeus, it may be that Plato's creator god called the demiurge is intended to support Plato's politics. The demiurge is like a philosopher god, who creates order out of his mind, similar to the way that the Plato's philosopher kings would order society on rational principles.