The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles.
Shakespeare\'s play includes the wealthy, magnificent, and extravagantly ge.
This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare\'s contemporaries, for whom "Timonist" was a slang term for an unsociable man.
Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope, or man-hater.
The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles