# Timon of Athens — Character guide

> Key figures in Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare.

- [Timon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/timon.md): Timon presides over Athens as its great patron, hosting banquets, settling debts, and dispensing gold with a generosity so absolute it looks like love. His flaw is not merely extravagance but a refusal to imagine scarcit
- [Apemantus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/apemantus.md): Apemantus accepts Timon's hospitality only to spit on it, calling the flatterers dogs and the banquet poison while everyone else smiles and eats. He is the play's professional truth-teller, and his churlishness raises th
- [Alcibiades](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/alcibiades.md): Alcibiades moves through the play's early scenes as a soldier among senators, honored at Timon's feast but already at odds with a city that prefers procedure to merit. His plea for a friend's life is refused, and the Sen
- [Flavius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/flavius.md): Flavius is the one honest voice inside Timon's household, weeping over the accounts he cannot balance while his master keeps buying friends. When the estate collapses, he divides his last coins among the servants and goe
- [Servilius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/servilius.md): A servant of Timon who assists with his master's affairs and later seeks help from former friends.
- [Lucilius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/lucilius.md): A young servant of Timon who seeks his master's blessing to marry an old Athenian's daughter.
- [Flaminius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/flaminius.md): One of Timon's servants sent to borrow money from Lucullus, who refuses him.
- [Lucullus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/lucullus.md): A flattering friend of Timon who refuses to lend him money when he falls into debt.
- [Ventidius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/ventidius.md): A friend of Timon who is freed from prison by Timon's money but later denies him aid.
- [Timandra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/timandra.md): A courtesan who accompanies Alcibiades and taunts Timon in his cave.
- [Varro](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/varro.md): A servant of one of Timon's creditors who comes to demand repayment.
- [Titus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/titus.md): A servant of Timon's creditors who arrives to collect debts.
- [Sempronius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/sempronius.md): Another of Timon's false friends who refuses to help him in his time of need.
- [Caphis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/caphis.md): A servant sent by a senator to demand repayment from Timon.
- [Poet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/poet.md): A sycophantic poet who flatters Timon for patronage but later abandons him.
- [Painter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/painter.md): A flattering painter who seeks Timon's patronage and later visits him in exile.
- [Isidore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/isidore.md): A creditor whose servants demand payment from Timon.
- [Philotus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/philotus.md): A servant of a creditor who comes to collect from Timon.
- [First Senator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/first_senator.md): A senator of Athens who condemns Alcibiades and later seeks Timon's help.
- [Fool](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/fool.md): A fool who accompanies Apemantus and trades barbs with the servants.
- [First Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/first_stranger.md): A stranger who comments on the fickleness of Timon's friends.
- [Second Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/timon_of_athens_se/characters/second_stranger.md): A stranger who agrees with the first about Timon's false friends.

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