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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 989 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIMON , of See also:

Athens, the noted misanthrope, celebrated in See also:Shakespeare's See also:play, lived during the Peloponnesian See also:War. He is more thap once alluded to by See also:Aristophanes and other comedians. See also:Plutarch introduces a See also:short See also:account of his See also:life in his See also:biography of See also:Mark Antony (ch. 70), who built a See also:retreat called Timonium (See also:Strabo xvii. 794) at See also:Alexandria. Timon also gave his name to one of See also:Lucian's dialogues. Shakespeare probably derived his knowledge of Timon mainly from Plutarch; but the Timon of Shakespeare so resembles the Timon of Lucian that Shakespeare (or whoever wrote the first See also:sketch of the play) may have had See also:access to the See also:dialogue.

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