Timagenes
Timagenes was a Greek writer, historian and teacher of rhetoric, son of a royal banker. Suda writes that some say that he was Egyptian. 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.
Also recorded as Timagenes of Alexandria
Timagenes
- Born
- 100 · Alexandria.
- Died
- 100 · Albano Laziale.
- Occupation
- historian · writer
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Timagenes was a Greek writer, historian and teacher of rhetoric, son of a royal banker. Suda writes that some say that he was Egyptian. 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.
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Born at Alexandria in 100, died in Albano Laziale in 100.
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Timagenes born at Alexandria.
100
Timagenes died at Albano Laziale.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 102408319, Timagenes, Milesius.
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- Richard Laqueur: Timagenes. In: Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Vol. VI A,1, Stuttgart 1936, col. 1063–1071.
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