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Timoclea
Timoclea or Timocleia of Thebes is a woman whose story is told by Plutarch in his Life of Alexander, and at greater length in his Mulierum virtutes ("Virtues of Women"). According to Plutarch's biography of Alexander the Great, when his forces took Thebes during Alexander's Balkan campaign of 335 BC, Thracian forces pillaged the city, and a captain of the Thracian forces raped Timocleia. After raping her, the captain asked if she knew of any hidden...
27 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Rough Venus
speciesTimoclea scabra
Oval Venus
speciesTimoclea ovata
Timoclea cochinensis
speciesTimoclea cochinensis
Timoclea imbricata
speciesTimoclea imbricata
Marica Venus
speciesTimoclea marica
Timoclea subnodulosa
speciesTimoclea subnodulosa
Timoclea mindanensis
speciesTimoclea mindanensis
Timoclea micra
speciesTimoclea micra
Timoclea costellifera
speciesTimoclea costellifera
Timoclea hypopta
speciesTimoclea hypopta
Timoclea layardi
speciesTimoclea layardi
Timoclea lionota
speciesTimoclea lionota
Timoclea langfordi
speciesTimoclea langfordi
Timoclea concinna
speciesTimoclea concinna
Timoclea habei
speciesTimoclea habei
Timoclea keegani
speciesTimoclea keegani
Timoclea smithiana
speciesTimoclea smithiana
Timoclea peresi
speciesTimoclea peresi
Timoclea levukensis
speciesTimoclea levukensis
Timoclea scandularis
speciesTimoclea scandularis
Timoclea siamensis
speciesTimoclea siamensis
Timoclea crassisquamata
speciesTimoclea crassisquamata
Timoclea infans
speciesTimoclea infans
Timoclea arakana
speciesTimoclea arakana
Timoclea roemeriana
speciesTimoclea roemeriana
Timoclea decorata
speciesTimoclea decorata
Timoclea levicostata
speciesTimoclea levicostata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 246391.