Timagoras
(Τιμαγόρας), historical.
1. A Tegean, was one of the ambassadors who were sent, in B. C. 430, to ask the king of Persia to aid the Peloponnesians against Athens. On their way through Thrace they were seized by Sadocus at the instigation of the Athenian envoys at the court of Sitalces, and, having been taken to Athens, were there put to death. (Thuc. 2.67.)
2. A citizen of Cyzicus, and son of Athenagoras. Having been driven into exile by his political opponents of the democratic party, he took refuge at the court of Pharnabazus, the satrap of the Persian provinces near the Hellespont, by whom he was sent to Lacedaemon, in B. C. 412, to urge that a fleet should be despatched to support the Greek cities in his satrapy in their intended revolt from Athens. (Thuc. 8.6, 39.) [Pharnabazus, No. 2.]
3. An Athenian, was the colleague of Leon as ambassador from Athens, in B. C. 367, to the Persian court. [Leo, No. 6.] In this mission he spent four years, and had the address to adapt his conduct to what he perceived to be the king's inclination, separating himself altogether from Leon, and taking part with Pelopidas, the Theban envoy. His supple compliance and his treachery in revealing state-secrets purchased for him the bounty of Artaxerxes, but on his return home he was impeached by Leon, and put to death. (Xen. Hell. 7.1. §§ 33, &c.; Plut. Art. 22, Pelop. 30 ; Demosth. de Fals. Leg. pp. 383, 400; Ath. ii. p. 48d, e; V. Max. 6.3, ext. 2.) Athenaeus (l.c.) speaks of a Cretan, called Timagoras, who also enjoyed the Persian king's favour and was a distinct person from the Athenian of the same name. See, however, Casaub. ad loc.
4. A Rhodian, was placed in command of five ships, which his countrymen sent to Chalcis, in B. C. 171, to co-operate with C. Lucretius in the war with Perseus. (Plb. 27.6.)
5. In the same passage of Polybius it is stated that, while these five ships sailed to Chalcis, one more was sent to Tenedus under a commander also named Timagoras, who fell in with and captured the crew of a ship which was conveying Diophanes on an embassy from Perseus to Antiochus Epiphanes. Diophanes himself escaped. [E.E]
(Τιμαγόρας), of Chalcis, a painter, contemporary with Panaenus, whom he defeated in a contest for the prize of painting, at the Pythian games. Timagoras afterwards celebrated his victory in a poem. (Plin. Nat. 35.9. s. 35.) [P.S]
- Hdt. 7.98
- kills himself for love: Paus. 1.30.1