Plutarch's Lives

Timophanes

Family: Corinthian · Role: military commander and tyrant · First appears: Timoleon

Life events

  • Timophanes declared himself tyrant of Corinth and was killed by conspirators.(Timoleon · 📍 Corinth)
    • With: Timoleon Aeschylus
    • “But when Timophanes began first to laugh at the men's simplicity, and presently broke out into rage and indignation against them, Timoleon stepped aside from him and stood weeping with his face covered, while the other two, drawing out their swords, dispatched him in a moment.”

Timoleon

  • siblings with Timoleon “He had an elder brother, whose name was Timophanes, who was every way unlike him”
  • with Timoleon (interaction) “Timoleon much assisted him, helping to conceal or at least to extenuate his errors”
  • enemies with Timoleon “while the other two, drawing out their swords, dispatched him in a moment.”
  • with Aeschylus (interaction) “taking with him Aeschylus his kinsman, brother to the wife of Timophanes”

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