Timoclea
Sign in to savethumb|right|1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani (adapting Merian's engraving); Timoclea pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Thebes
- Occupation
- freedom fighter
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Conflict
- Alexander's Balkan campaign
- Image
- Sirani, Elisabetta - Timoclea uccide il capitano di Alessandro Magno - 1659.jpg
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thumb|right|1659 painting by Elisabetta Sirani (adapting Merian's engraving); Timoclea pushing the Thracian captain who raped her into a well.
Timoclea or Timocleia of Thebes () is a woman whose story is told by Plutarch in his Life of Alexander, and at greater length in his Mulierum virtutes ("Virtues of Women"). According to Plutarch's biography of Alexander the Great, when his forces took Thebes during Alexander's Balkan campaign of 335 BC, Thracian forces pillaged the city, and a Thracian captain raped Timocleia. After raping her, the captain asked if she knew of any hidden money. She told him that she did, and led him into her garden, and told him there was money hidden in her well. When the Thracian captain stooped to look into the well, Timocleia pushed him down into it, and then hurled heavy stones down until the captain died.