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23 But, said Heracleon, we hear you grammarians attributing this view to Homer on the ground that he distributed the universe into five worlds Cf. 390 c, supra; Homer, Il. xv. 187.: the heavens, the water, the air, the earth, and Olympus. Of these he leaves two to be held in common, the earth for all below and Olympus for all above, and the three that lie between were assigned to the three gods. In this wise Plato Cf. Plato, Timaeus, 31 a, and 55 c; Moralia, 390 a and 887 b. also, apparently, associated the fairest and foremost forms and figures with the different divisions of the universe, and called them five worlds, one of earth, one of water, one of air, one of fire, and last of all, the one which includes all these, the world of the dodecahedron, of wide expanse and many turnings, to which he assigned a form appropriate to the cycles and movements of the soul.