Timon

Timon may refer to:

A given name of Greek origin:

  • Timon of Phlius, a Skeptic philosopher of classical Greece
  • Timon of Athens (person), a legendary misanthrope
  • Timon the Deacon, an early Christian leader

Fiction:

  • Timon of Athens, a play by William Shakespeare
  • Timon of Athens (Thomas Shadwell), a rewrite of Shakespeare's original play by Thomas Shadwell
  • Timon (Lion King), a film and television character, originally from the movie The Lion King
  • Timon (character of Rome), a character in the 2005 television series Rome

Other:

  • Timon, Maranhão, a town in the Brazilian state of Maranhão
  • Timon (genus) is genus of wall lizards, including Ocellated Lizard (Timon lepidus)

Famous quotes containing the word timon:

    Grant me an old man’s frenzy.
    Myself must I remake
    Till I am Timon and Lear
    Or that William Blake
    Who beats upon the wall
    Till truth obeyed his call....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon we rage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)