Timocles

Timocles

Timocles

Athenian poet, of the Middle Comedy

Timocles (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλῆς, fl. c. 345 BC – c. 317 BC) was one of the last Athenian comic poets of the Middle Comedy,[1] although Pollux listed him among the writers of New Comedy.[2] He is known to have won first prize at the Lenaea once, between 330 and 320 BC.[3] The Suda claims that there were two comic poets of this name,[4] but modern scholars equate the two.[5] Unlike most Middle Comedy plays, his works featured a good deal of personal ridicule of public figures, especially orators like Demosthenes and Hyperides.

At least 26, and possibly 28, titles of Timocles' works survive.[1]

  • Egyptians
  • The Bath-House
  • The Farmer
  • The Ring
  • Delos, or the Man from Delos
  • Public Satyrs
  • Woman Celebrating the Dionysia
  • Dionysus
  • Little Dragon
  • Letters
  • Rejoicing at Another's Misfortune
  • Heroes
  • Icarians, or Satyrs
  • Men from Caunos
  • The Centaur, or Dexamenus
  • Conisalus
  • Forgetfulness
  • Men From Marathon
  • Neaira
  • Orestautocleides
  • The Busybody
  • The Man from Pontus
  • Porphyra
  • The Boxer
  • Sappho
  • Co-Workers
  • Philodicastes
  • The False-Robbers

References

  1. [1]
    Constantinides 1969, p. 49.
  2. [2]
    Pollux 10.154
  3. [3]
    OCD.
  4. [4]
    Suda τ 623, 624
  5. [5]
    Constantinides 1969, p. 50.

Works cited

  • Constantinides, Elizabeth (1969). "Timocles' Ikarioi Satyroi: A Reconsideration". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association. 100: 49–61. doi:10.2307/2935900. JSTOR 2935900.
  • Dover, K. J. "Timocles". Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th ed.).
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