Timon of Phlius, Ancient Greek Philosopher
Timon of Phlius (320 BC - 230 BC) was a Greek skeptic philosopher and a pupil of Pyrrho. His writings were said to have been very numerous. He composed poetry, tragedies, satiric dramas, and comedies, of which very little remains. His most famous composition was his Silloi, a satirical account of famous philosophers, living and dead, in hexameter verse. The Silloi has not survived intact, but it is mentioned and quoted by several ancient authors. He appears to have been endowed by nature with a powerful and active mind, and with a quick perception of the weaknesses of people, which made him a skeptic in philosophy and a satirist in everything. According to Diogenes Laertius, Timon was a one-eyed man; and he used even to make a jest of his own defect, calling himself Cyclops. No remains of his dramas have survived. Of his epic poems little is known, but it may be presumed that they were chiefly ludicrous or satirical poems in the epic form. He died at an age of almost ninety. Engraving from "The History of Philosophy" by Thomas Stanley published in three successive volumes between 1655 and 1661.
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