A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Τιμάνθης), an athlete of Cleonae. Pausanias relates of him that, when he had ceased to be a competitor at the games, he used still to make daily trial of his strength by bending a huge bow. At length, however, having been absent for some time from his own city, he found on his return that he was no longer able to perform the feat, whereupon he burnt himself to death through mortification. There was a statue of

him at Olympia, the work of Myron. (Paus. 6.8.)

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