Timon of Phlius - Writings

Writings

The writings of Timon are represented as very numerous. According to Diogenes Laƫrtius, he composed "lyric and epic poems, and tragedies and satiric dramas, and thirty comedies, and sixty tragedies and the Silloi and amatory poems."

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