Timagenes
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Timagenes () was a Greek writer, historian and teacher of rhetoric. He came from Alexandria, was captured by Romans in 55 BC and taken to Rome, where he was purchased by Faustus Cornelius Sulla, son of Sulla. It is said that Timagenes had a falling-out with emperor Augustus, whereupon he destroyed his writings and fled Rome. He also asked Cleopatra to deliver Mark Antony to Octavianus, or have him put to death.
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- Deutera apantēsis pros Michaēl Kastellēn, hierea en Smyrnē
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Alexandria
- Place of death
- Albano Laziale
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- date of birth
- 0100-01-01
- date of death
- 0100-01-01
- name in native language
- Τιμαγένης
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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Timagenes () was a Greek writer, historian and teacher of rhetoric. He came from Alexandria, was captured by Romans in 55 BC and taken to Rome, where he was purchased by Faustus Cornelius Sulla, son of Sulla. It is said that Timagenes had a falling-out with emperor Augustus, whereupon he destroyed his writings and fled Rome. He also asked Cleopatra to deliver Mark Antony to Octavianus, or have him put to death.
During his life Timagenes wrote a Universal History (until the time of Caesar) and a History of the Gauls. These works did not survive but are known through quotations in other historians. For example, the History of the Gauls is quoted in the works of Ammianus Marcellinus. It is sometimes credited as the source for Pompeius Trogus's Philippic Histories, which survive in Justin's epitome.
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