Editing Timon of Athens (section)

== Sources ==
Shakespeare, in writing the play, probably drew upon the twenty-eighth novella of [[William Painter (author)|William Painter]]'s ''Palace of Pleasure'', the thirty-eighth novella of which was the main source for his ''[[All's Well That Ends Well]]''.<ref name=Wells/>{{rp|p.127}} He also drew upon Plutarch's ''Lives'',{{efn|The Lives of Marcus Antonius and Alcibiades in particular}} and perhaps [[Lucian]]'s ''Dialogues''{{efn|Probably in [[Erasmus]]' Latin translation of 1528.<ref name=Jowett/>{{rp|p.19}}}} and a lost comedy on the subject of Timon, allusions to which survive from 1584.<ref name=Jowett/>{{rp|p.19–20}}
The historical figure of [[Timon_of_Athens_(person)|Timon of Athens]] was already mentioned in [[Lysistrata]], by [[Aristophanes]]; by [[Plato Comicus]]; in [[Laelius_de_Amicitia|De Amicitia]], by [[Cicero]]; in [[Geographica]], by [[Strabo]]; in Timon the Misanthrope, by [[Lucian]]; in [[Parallel Lives]], by [[Plutarch]].