What is "timotheus"

Timotheus (; died 354 BC) was a Greek statesman and general who sought to revive Athenian imperial ambitions by making Athens dominant in a Second Athenian Empire. He was the son of the Athenian general, Conon. Isocrates considered that Timotheus was superior to the other commanders of his time and showed all the requisites and abilities of a good general.

Timotheus may refer to:

• Timotheus (general) (fl. 4th century BCE), Athenian statesman and general
• Timotheus of Miletus, 5th century BCE Greek poet and musician at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon
• Timotheus (aulist), a musician at the court of Alexander the Great
• Timotheus (sculptor), 4th century BCE Greek sculptor who took part in the building of Mausoleum of Maussollos
• Timotheus (Ammon), Ammonite opponent of Judas Maccabeus
• Timotheus of Gaza, 5th century Greek grammarian active during the reign of Anastasius
• Saint Timothy, 1st-century AD Christian leader
• Pope Timothy II of Alexandria, also known as Timotheus Aelurus, 5th century AD monophysite bishop
• Daumantas of Pskov, also known as Timotheus of Pskov, patron saint of the city of Pskov
• Timotheus of Heraclea, ruler of Heraclea Pontica, and the son of the tyrant Clearchus of Heraclea
• Léal Souvenir - an alternative title for a 1432 portrait by Jan van Eyck

Timotheus is the name given in the 1 Maccabees for an Ammonite general of the mid 2nd century BCE. He was defeated by Judas Maccabeus at Dathema in Gilead.

Some scholars maintain that Ammon had ceased to exist as a distinct nation by this time, and that the designation of Ammonite as applied to Timotheus is geographic rather than ethnic; the account of Justin Martyr (who maintained that Ammonites were numerous in his period) call this hypothesis into question.

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Timotheus (; born in Epidaurus; died in Epidaurus, c. 340 BC) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, one of the rivals and contemporaries of Scopas of Paros, among the sculptors who worked for their own fame on the construction of the grave of Mausolus at Halicarnassus between 353 and 350 BC. He was apparently the leading sculptor at the temple of Asklepios at Epidaurus, c. 380 BC. To him is attributed a sculpture of Leda and the Swan in which the queen Leda of Sparta protected a swan from an eagle, on the basis of which a Roman marble copy in the Capitoline Museums is said to be "after Timotheus". The theme must have been popular, judging by the more than two dozen Roman marble copies that survive. The most famous version has been that in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, purchased by Pope Clement XIV from the heirs of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. A highly restored version is in the Museo del Prado, and an incomplete one is in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Timotheus was a famous aulos player from Thebes, who flourished in Macedon during the reigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. He later accompanied Alexander in his campaigns. After his death, a story about the effect of his music on Alexander became a familiar reference point in literature on the power of music to manipulate emotion.