Timaeus
1.
The historian, was the son of Andromachus, tyrant of Tauromenium in Sicily, and was
born about B.C. 352. He was banished from Sicily by Agathocles, and passed his exile at
Athens, where he had lived 50 years when he wrote the 34th book of his history. He probably
died about 256. The great work of Timaeus was a history of Sicily from the earliest times to
264. The fragments are edited by C. and Th. Müller
(Paris, 1841).
Timaeus is said to have been the first to record events by Olympiads. (See
Olympias.)
2.
Of Locri, in Italy, a Pythagorean philosopher, is said to have been a teacher of Plato. He
gives his name to a dialogue of Plato, in which is given the account of the mythical island
Atlantis, lying in the Western Ocean, and supposed by many in modern times to have been
suggested by vague stories of the American continent.
