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Timotheus (general) in Wikipedia

Timotheus (? - 354 BC) was a Greek statesman and general who sought to revive Athenian imperial ambitions by making Athens dominant in a second Athenian Empire. He was the son of the Athenian general, Conon. Isocrates considered that Timotheus was superior to the other commanders of his time and showed all the requisites and abilities of a good gen...

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Aelius Theon in Wikipedia

Aelius Theon (Ancient Greek: Αἴλιος Θέων; gen.: Αἰλίου Θέωνος) was an Alexandrian sophist and author of a collection of preliminary exercises (progymnasmata) for the training of orators. He probably lived and wrote in the mid to late first century A.D. and his treatise is the earliest treatment of these exercises. The work (extant, though incomplet...

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Thrasybūlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Θρασύβουλος). A celebrated Athenian, son of Lycus. He was zealously attached to the Athenian democracy, and took an active part in overthrowing the oligarchical government of the 400 in B.C. 403. See Thirty Tyrants....

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Timocrates in Wikipedia

Timocrates may refer to: * "Against Timocrates", a speech by Demosthenes * Timocrates of Rhodes, (4th century BC) a Rhodian Greek opposed to Sparta * Timocrates of Lampsacus, (3rd century BC) disciple of Epicurus, but who later became his enemy...

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Thrasyllus in Wikipedia

Thrasyllus (d. 406 BC) was an Athenian strategos (general) and statesman who rose to prominence in the later years of the Peloponnesian War. First appearing in Athenian politics in 410 BC, in the wake of the Athenian coup of 411 BC, he played a role in organizing democratic resistance in an Athenian fleet at Samos. There, he was elected strategos b...

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Timaeus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Of Locri, in Italy, a Pythagorean philosopher, is said to have been a teacher of Plato. He gives his name to a dialogue of Plato, in which is given the account of the mythical island Atlantis, lying in the Western Ocean, and supposed by many in modern times to have been suggested by vague stories of the American continent....

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Timaeus of Locri in Wikipedia

Timaeus of Locri (Ancient Greek: Τίμαιος ὁ Λοκρός; Latin: Timaeus Locrus) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher living in the 5th century BC. He features in Plato's Timaeus, where he is said to come from Locri in Italy, thus of Locrian origin. He also appears as one of the speakers in Plato's Critias. Later references to Timaeus of Locri from Anti...

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Timotheus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The son of Conon , the famous general. He was himself a distinguished Athenian soldier. He was first appointed to a public command in B.C. 378; and from this time his name frequently occurs as one of the Athenian generals down to 356. In this year he was associated with Iphicrates, Menestheus, and Chares in the command of the Athenian fleet. In con...

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Theophilus in Wikipedia

Theophilus is a male given name with a range of alternative spellings. Its origin is the Greek word Θεόφιλος which means "Friend of God", i.e., it is a theophoric name, synonymous with the name Amadeus which originates from Latin. Theophilus may refer to: People Arts * Theophilus Presbyter - (1070–1125), Benedictine monk, and author of the best-k...

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Timocreon in Wikipedia

Timocreon, of Ialysus in Rhodes, was a Greek lyric poet who flourished about 480 BC. During the Persian wars he had been banished on suspicion of "medism". Themistocles had promised to procure his recall, but was unable to resist the bribes of Timocreon's adversaries and allowed him to remain in exile. Timocreon thereupon attacked him most bitterl...

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