Editing Timocreon (section)

{{Short description|5th-century BC Greek lyric poet}}
[[File:Lip-Cup sexual intercourse Ialysos black background.jpg|right|thumb|A [[lip cup]] from Ialysos, dated around 550–540 BC, showing couples in athletic poses. Timocreon, also from Ialysos, composed songs for drinking parties and was himself an athlete]]
'''Timocreon''' of [[Ialysus]] in [[Rhodes]] ({{langx|grc|Τιμοκρέων}}, ''gen''.: Τιμοκρέοντος) was a [[Greek lyric poet]] who flourished about 480 BC, at the time of the [[Persian Wars]]. His poetry survives only in a very few fragments, and some claim he has received less attention from modern scholars than he deserves.<ref>Rachel M. McMullin, 'Aspects of Medizing: Themistocles, Simonides and Timocreon of Rhodes', ''The Classical Journal'' Vol. 97, No. 1 (October -November  2001), page [https://www.jstor.org/pss/3298434 online here]</ref> He seems to have composed convivial verses for [[symposium|drinking parties]]. However, he is remembered particularly for his bitter clashes with [[Themistocles]] and [[Simonides]] over the issue of his [[Medism|medizing]] (siding with the Persian invaders),  for which he had been banished from his home around the time of the Greek victory at the [[Battle of Salamis]]. He was also an athlete of some distinction and reputedly a glutton.<ref>David A. Campbell, ''Greek Lyric'' IV, Loeb Classical Library (1992), page 4</ref>{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

An epitaph for him, appearing in the ''[[Palatine Anthology]]'', was credited to his rival, Simonides: "After much drinking, much eating and much slandering, I, Timocreon of Rhodes, rest here."<ref>David A. Campbell, ''Greek Lyric'' III, Loeb Classical Library (1991), page 555</ref>