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Timaeus

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Born:
c. 350 bc, Tauromenium, Sicily [now Taormina, Italy]
Died:
after 264
Subjects Of Study:
Sicily
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Timaeus (born c. 350 bc, Tauromenium, Sicily [now Taormina, Italy]—died after 264) was a Greek historian whose writings shaped the tradition of western Mediterranean history. Expelled from Sicily by Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, about 315 bc, Timaeus went to Athens, where he studied rhetoric under Isocrates’ pupil Philiscus of Miletus and passed 50 years of his life. Whether he ever returned home is uncertain. The 38 books of his (Sikelikai) Historiai (Sicilian History), which included the first Greek presentation of Roman history, covered events up to Agathocles’ death in 289, but a separate work on Pyrrhus of Epirus seems ...(100 of 315 words)

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