Timomachus
Timomachus of Byzantium (or Timomachos,
Ancient Greek
: Τιμόμαχος) was an influential painter of the first century BCE.
Works
Naturalis Historia (35.136), records that Julius Caesar had acquired two paintings by Timomachus, one of Ajax during his madness, and a Medea meditating the slaying of her children,[1] which cost him the considerable sum of 80 talents.[2]: 178 Scholars have connected these works with the carrying away of a Medea and Ajax from Cyzicus, an ancient port of Anatolia, mentioned in Cicero's In Verrem (2.4.135), and propose that Caesar acquired them there, shortly after his victory at Pharsalus.[3]: 308 The paintings, "a pair linked to each other by their rage",[4]: 210 were installed in front of the Temple of Venus Genetrix
, and remained there until their destruction by fire in 80 CE.
The verisimilitude. Scholars believe that two well-known depictions of Medea preserved at Pompeii were composed under the influence of Timomachus' work.[3]: 309–310
References
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Timomachus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 989.
- ISBN 978-0-521-27366-4. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ S2CID 170134971.
- ISBN 978-0-674-00618-8. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
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