Timocles
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Timocles (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλῆς) was an Athenian comic poet of the Middle Comedy, although Pollux listed him among the writers of New Comedy.[1] The Suda claims that there were two comic poets of this name, but modern scholars equate the two.[2] Unlike most Middle Comedy plays, his works featured a good deal of personal ridicule of public figures, especially orators like Demosthenes and Hyperides.
Surviving Titles and Fragments[]
The following twenty eight titles, along with associated fragments, of Timocles' work have survived:
- Egyptians
- The Bath-House
- The Farmer
- The Ring
- Delos, or the Man from Delos
- Public Satyrs
- Woman Celebrating the Dionysia
- Dionysus
- Little Dragon
- Letters
- Rejoicing at Another's Misfortune
- Heroes
- Icarians, or Satyrs
- Men from Caunos
- The Centaur, or Dexamenus
- Conisalus
- Forgetfulness
- Men From Marathon
- Neaira
- Orestautocleides
- The Busybody
- The Man from Pontus
- Porphyra
- The Boxer
- Sappho
- Co-Workers
- Philodicastes
- The False-Robbers
References[]
Categories:
- Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights
- Greek poets
- Middle Comic poets
- Greek male poets
- Ancient Greek people stubs