Timotheus, Greek poet and musician

Timotheus (tĭmō`thēəs), c.450–c.357 B.C., Greek poet and musician of Miletus. An innovator in music, he added a string to the kithara. Fragments of his dithyrambs and nomes remain. Euripides wrote the prologue for his Persae, a lyric nome.

Timotheus, Greek sculptor

Timotheus, fl. 4th cent. B.C., Greek sculptor of Athens, recorded as one of the sculptors who worked with Scopas on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. About 375 B.C., according to an inscription, he furnished models for sculptures on the temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus and executed acroteria (decorative figures placed above the pediments) for this building.

Timotheus(Saint Timothy)

Timotheus: see Timothy, Saint Timothy, Saint, d. c.100, early Christian, addressee of two books of the New Testament. The son of a Greek father and a Jewish mother, he was the friend and companion of St. Paul . He became first bishop of Ephesus and, according to tradition, was martyred there.
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The same thing holds good of Dithyrambs and Nomes; here too one may portray different types, as Timotheus and Philoxenus differed in representing their Cyclopes.

The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context

It is written that Timotheus the Athenian, after he had, in the account he gave to the state of his government, often interlaced this speech, and in this, Fortune had no part, never prospered in anything, he undertook afterwards.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

As Timotheus sings he stirs at will his hearers' hearts to love, to pity, or to revenge.

English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context

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