Timocles

{{Short description|Athenian poet, of the Middle Comedy}}

Timocles (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλῆς, {{floruit|{{circa|345 BC|317 BC}}}}) was one of the last Athenian comic poets of the Middle Comedy,{{sfn|Constantinides|1969|p=49}} although Pollux listed him among the writers of New Comedy.Pollux 10.154 He is known to have won first prize at the Lenaea once, between 330 and 320 BC.{{sfn|OCD}} The Suda claims that there were two comic poets of this name,Suda τ 623, 624 but modern scholars equate the two.{{sfn|Constantinides|1969|p=50}} Unlike most Middle Comedy plays, his works featured a good deal of personal ridicule of public figures, especially orators like Demosthenes and Hyperides.

At least 26, and possibly 28, titles of Timocles' works survive.{{sfn|Constantinides|1969|p=49}}

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• Egyptians
• The Bath-House
• The Farmer
• The Ring
• Delos, or the Man from Delos
• Public Satyrs
• Woman Celebrating the Dionysia
• Dionysus
• Little Dragon
• Letters
• Rejoicing at Another's Misfortune
• Heroes
• Icarians, or Satyrs
• Men from Caunos
• The Centaur, or Dexamenus
• Conisalus
• Forgetfulness
• Men From Marathon
• Neaira
• Orestautocleides
• The Busybody
• The Man from Pontus
• Porphyra
• The Boxer
• Sappho
• Co-Workers
• Philodicastes
• The False-Robbers

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