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Timesitheus (gr. Timesitheos), a tragic poet, mentioned only by Suidas (s. v.) who gives us the following titles of his plays :--Danaïdes b, Hektoros lytra, Herakles, Ixion, Kapaneus, Memnon, Mnesteres, Zenos gonai, Helenes apaitesis, Orestes [kai] Pylades, Kastor kai Polydeukes. In the last title but one, the kai, which is not in the text of Suidas, should evidently be inserted, for it cannot be supposed that Orestes and Pylades were two distinct plays, any more than Kastor kai Polydeukes. Meineke proposes to unite also two of the other titles, so as to make Elenes mnesteres a single play (Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 391), but Welcker judiciously observes that the mnêstêres may refer to the suitors of Penelope quite as probably as to those of Helen, and that, in either case, the title is quite sufficient as it stands, without robbing another play in order to improve it. Welcker has also remarked, and probably with as much truth as ingenuity, that some of the above titles seem to be those of satyric dramas; for the Zenos gonai cannot possibly be a tragedy, and Herakles, standing alone, without any epithet, indicates a satyric drama rather than a tragedy; and moreover, the Zenos gonai and the Helenes apaitesis both stand out of the alphabetical order. The same scholar shows that there is reason to think that the Danaïdes was not founded on the corresponding play of Aeschylus, but contained a different version of the story, which bad already been adopted by Archilochus, and according to which Lynceus avenged his brethren by slaying Danaus and his daughters (Jo. Malal. Chron. iv. init.; Schol. Eurip. Hec. 869, Serv. ad Viry. Aen. x. 497). The plan of the Helenrs apaitesis may be conjectured to have been borrowed from Sophocles, and that of the Ixion from Euripides; shortly after whom, so far as any conclusion can be drawn from the titles, Timesitheus appears to have lived (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 325; Welcker, die Griech. Tragöd. pp. 1046-1048 ; Kayser, Hist. Crit. Tray. Graec. p. 327 ; Wagner, Frag. Trag. Graec. pp. 144, 145, in Didot's Bibliotheca.)
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