Timaeus

Timaeus
of Tauromenium (mod. Taormina) in Sicily, c.350–260 BC, the most important western Greek historian; son of Andromachus, the dynast who refounded Tauromenium in 358. Andromachus gave Timoleon (see Sicily §5) a warm welcome in 345 and lent him his support (T 3). Timaeus was exiled in c.315 probably on account of his hostility towards the tyrant Agathocles after he had captured Tauromenium (fr. 124d) and spent at least fifty years of his exile at Athens (fr. 34), where he studied under Philiscus of Miletus, a pupil of Isocrates (T 1), and wrote his great work of history. It is conceivable that he returned to Sicily in c.265 but not certain. Timaeus died, allegedly at the age of 96 (T 5), shortly after 264 (see below).

Works

    1. Olympionikai: a synchronic list of Olympian victors, Spartan kings and ephors (magistrates), the Athenian...

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