c. 320–230 BCE · sceptic philosopher · satirist
Timon of Phlius
Τίμων ὁ Φλιάσιος
Known · AttestedNot attested in Alexandria.
A pupil of Pyrrho who mocked the scholars the king fed in Egypt as bookish scribblers "quarrelling endlessly in the birdcage of the Muses": the earliest outside view of the Mouseion. He was not of Alexandria.
Our device: No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Timon of Phlius, Silloi · c. 270–235 BCE · Survives in fragments
Moments
- c. 270s–240s BCE · Callimachus compiles the Pinakes Known: attested
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Sources
- Timon of Phlius fr. 12 Diels (Athenaeus 1.22d)