Timaeus

Family: Athens · Role: prisoner and adviser · First appears: Alcibiades

Alcibiades

• friends with Andocides “Andocides, amongst the rest who were prisoners upon the same account, contracted particular acquaintance and intimacy with one Timaeus”

Timoleon

• parent: Andromachus “This man was father of Timaeus the historian”

Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus

• with Gylippus (Timaeus writes about Gylippus's conduct.) “Timaeus writes, that the Syracusans sent even Gylippus home dishonorably, and with a reputation lost by the unsatiable covetousness he displayed when he commanded the army”

Nicias

• rivals with Thucydides “Timaeus, who, hoping in his history to surpass Thucydides in art”
• rivals with Philistus “and to make Philistus appear a trifler and a novice”
• rivals with Plato “This sort of contention and rivalry with others in matter of style”
• rivals with Aristotle “This sort of contention and rivalry with others in matter of style”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.