Theophrastus: of Lesbos and afterwards of Athens; disciple and successor of Aristotle as head of the Peripatetics (322 B.C.). An encyclopaedic writer on logic, physics, history, biology, zoology, &c. His best-known work is his Characters.
Theopompus: king of Sparta, fl. c. 750 B.C. To his reign belonged the change of the form of government by the establishment of the popular ‘ephors’ to control the royal power.
Thersítes: misshapen and virulent demagogue in the Greek army before Troy.
Thĕtis: sea-goddess; mother of Achilles.
Thrasybúlus: despot of Miletus, contemporary and friend of Periander (q.v.), over whom he exercised a bad influence, as in advising him to ‘cut down the tall poppies’.
Thúrii: Greek city in South Italy on the west side of the Gulf of Tarentum, noted for its special democratic system.
Tīmágĕnes: an Alexandrian or Syrian rhetorician and historian. He taught and wrote at Rome under Augustus, whose friendship he obtained, losing it, however, through his caustic freedom.
Tīmocléa: of Thebes. Plutarch tells of her noble and daring spirit in his Life of Alexander (c. 12).
Tīmomăchus: painter of Byzantium, first century B.C.; particularly famed for his Ajax and Medea, 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. 378-354 B.C.