Tīmomăchus: painter of Byzantium, first centuryB.C.; particularly famed for hisAjaxandMedea, which were bought by Julius Caesar. Medea was represented meditating the murder of her children.
Timóthëus: (1) an able and spirited Athenian general, who obtained several rather roving successes, chiefly against the Lacedaemonians. Something of a free lance; of popular character and considerable culture;fl.378-354B.C.
(2) poet and musician of Miletus, settled at Athens;fl.c.400-360B.C.His poems were mainly dithyrambs (high-flown and wordy compositions) or cognate lyrics. His music, at first ill received on account of its vulgarizing innovations, became immensely popular.
Tissaphernes: Persian satrap of lower Asia Minor. See Alcibiades.
Tīthónus: a mortal beloved of Eos (Aurora), who obtained for him immortality, but forgot to obtain him immortal youth.
Troezen: a town in the east of the Peloponnese near the entrance of the Saronic Gulf.
Tyndareus’ sons: Castor and Pollux, the traditional preservers of seamen.
Typhōn: = Set; Egyptian malignant deity; brother, enemy, and slayer of Osiris.
Xenócrătes: 396-314B.C.: philosopher from Chalcedon, disciple of Plato, and philosophic teacher and writer. His earnestness of character and application to study atoned for his lack of the Graces. Became head of the Academic school next but one after Plato.
Xenóphănes: philosopher of Colophon, and afterwards of Elea in Italy, in later part of sixth centuryB.C.Noted for his high conception of a Deity as neither anthropomorphic nor subject to human passions. His doctrines were embodied in hexameter verse.
Xenophōn: of Athens; the well-known historian, and leader of the retreat of the ‘Ten Thousand’ as recorded in hisAnabasis. A philosophical adherent of Socrates and a voluminous writer. Livedc.444-359B.C.
Zacýnthus= Zante, the southernmost of the Ionian islands.
Zéno: (1) of Citium in Cyprus and subsequently of Athens; founder of the Stoic philosophy; a man of simple, if rather dour, character, and capable of an apt retort:fl.c.270B.C.A writer on ethical, physical, and other philosophic subjects.
(2) Philosopher of Elea; disciple of Parmenides (q.v.); upholder of popular liberty against a usurping despot.