Timotheus
Family: Athenian · Role: military leader · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 3
Timotheus, an Athenian military leader, is named as the son of Conon in Book 1, and statues of father and son appear near a portico. In Book 2, a statue by Timotheus is identified as Æsculapius, though people of Trœzen say it represents Hippolytus.
In Book 6, after Conon won the sea-fight off Cnidus and Mount Dorium, the Ionians changed sides and displayed brazen statues of Conon and Timotheus at Samos and Ephesus. In Book 8, Pylades performed Timotheus’s tune Persæ at the Nemean games. In Book 9, Iphicrates, identified as Timotheus’s son, attacked with a force of Athenians and targeteers.
Relationship record
Life events
- Conon’s victory caused the Ionians to change sides and display statues of Conon and Timotheus.(Book 6 · Chapter 3 · 📍 Samos)
- With: Conon
- “And when fortune veered round again, and Conon won the sea-fight off Cnidus and Mount Dorium, then the Ionians changed sides again, and you may see a brazen statue of Conon and Timotheus at Samos in the temple of Hera, and likewise at Ephesus in the temple of Artemis.”
Book 1 · Chapter 3
- parent: Conon “near the portico are statues of Conon and his son Timotheus”
Book 1 · Chapter 29
- parent: Conon “Here too lie Conon and Timotheus, father and son, second only to Miltiades and Cimon in their brilliant feats.”
Book 2 · Chapter 32
- with Hippolytus (Timotheus made the statue identified by the people of Trœzen as Hippolytus.) “And there is a statue of Æsculapius by Timotheus, but the people of Trœzen say it is not Æsculapius but Hippolytus.”
- with Æsculapius (Timotheus made the statue of Æsculapius.) “And there is a statue of Æsculapius by Timotheus”
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- with Conon (Both were commemorated by a joint statue.) “you may see a brazen statue of Conon and Timotheus at Samos in the temple of Hera”
Book 8 · Chapter 50
- with Pylades (Pylades performed a tune by Timotheus.) “And not long after, when the Argives were celebrating the Nemean games, Philopœmen happened to be present at the contest of the harpers: and Pylades a native of Megalopolis (one of the most noted harpers of the day who had carried off the victory at the Pythian games), at that moment striking up the tune of the Milesian Timotheus called Persæ, and commencing at the words”
Book 9 · Chapter 14
- child: Iphicrates (Timotheus is Iphicrates' father.) “Iphicrates the son of Timotheus with a force of Athenians and some targeteers attacked him.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.