Timokreon
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right|thumb|A lip cup from Ialysos, dated around 550–540 BC, showing couples in athletic poses. Timocreon, also from Ialysos, composed songs for drinking parties and was himself an athlete Timocreon of Ialysus in Rhodes (, gen.: Τιμοκρέοντος) was a Greek lyric poet who flourished about 480 BC, at the time of the Persian Wars. His poetry survives only in a very few fragments, and some claim he has received less attention from modern scholars than he deserves. He seems to have composed convivial verses for drinking parties. However, he is remembered particularly for his bitter clashes with Themi
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Vinony files it under 5th-century BC Greek poets, Ancient Greek lyric poets and Ancient Rhodian poets.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Total plays
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Genre
- lyric poetry
- Movement
- Old Comedy
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- 0480-00-00
- date of birth
- 0500-00-00
- date of death
- 0460-00-00
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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