Timocles (Ancient Greek: Τιμοκλῆς, ) was one of the last Athenian comic poets of the Middle Comedy, 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. The Suda claims that there were two comic poets of this name,Suda τ 623, 624 but modern scholars equate the two. 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.
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