Timotheus

Family: Athenian · Role: overseer of religious ceremonies · First appears: Histories IV.82-85

Life events

• Ptolemy brought Timotheus from Eleusis to oversee religious ceremonies.(Histories IV.82-85 · 📍 Eleusis)
  • With: Ptolemy
  • “he consulted an Athenian named Timotheus, a member of the Eumolpid clan, whom he had brought over from Eleusis to be overseer of religious ceremonies”

Histories IV.82-85

• employer: Ptolemy (Ptolemy brought Timotheus over to serve as overseer of religious ceremonies.) “As they had but little knowledge of Pontus or of foreign cults, he consulted an Athenian named Timotheus, a member of the Eumolpid clan, whom he had brought over from Eleusis to be overseer of religious ceremonies, and asked him what worship and what god could possibly be meant.”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.