# Timarete

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**Timarete** (Greek: Τιμαρέτη) (or **Thamyris**, **Tamaris, Thamar**; 5th century BC), was an ancient [Greek](/source/Art_in_Ancient_Greece) [painter](/source/Painting).[1]

She was the daughter of the painter [Micon](/source/Micon) the Younger of [Athens](/source/Athens).[1] According to [Pliny the Elder](/source/Pliny_the_Elder), she "scorned the duties of women and practised her father's art." At the time of [Archelaus I of Macedon](/source/Archelaus_I_of_Macedon), she was best known for a panel painting of the goddess [Diana](/source/Diana_(mythology)) that was kept at [Ephesus](/source/Ephesus), a city that was associated with the goddess.[2] While it is no longer extant, it was kept at Ephesus for many years.[citation needed]

She is one of the six female artists of antiquity mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (XL.147–148) in A.D. 77: Timarete, [Irene](/source/Eirene_(artist)), [Calypso](/source/Calypso_(painter)), [Aristarete](/source/Aristarete), [Iaia](/source/Iaia), Olympias.[3]

## Primary sources

- Pliny the Elder, *[Naturalis historia](/source/Natural_History_(Pliny))* xxxv.35.59, [40.147](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D35%3Achapter%3D40).

## Secondary sources

- Chadwick, Whitney. *Women, Art, and Society*. Thames and Hudson, London, 1990.
- Harris, Anne Sutherland and [Linda Nochlin](/source/Linda_Nochlin). *Women Artists: 1550–1950*. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976.

## Citations

1. Salisbury, Joyce E. (2001). *Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world*. [Nachdr.] ed. Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1576070921.

1. Boccaccio, Giovanni (2003). [*Famous Women*](https://books.google.com/books?id=3Nj04ULC0s8C&q=tamaris). Translated by Brown, Virginia. Harvard University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-674-01130-4.

1. J. Linderski. The Paintress Calypso and Other Painters in Pliny. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Bd. 145 (2003), pp. 83–96

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