Timagoras

In Greek mythology, Timagoras (Ancient Greek: Τιμαγόρας, romanized: Timagóras) is a foreigner living in Athens, who falls in love with a lovely Athenian boy, Meles. His love is nevertheless rejected by the youth, who depending on versions tasks him to accomplish a number of difficult requests only to turn him down anyway, or bids him to jump from a great height. The spurned Timagoras ends his life the same way in both cases, by flunging himself from the rock of the Athenian Acropolis and finding death at the crags below.

The myth is attested in two main authors, second-century traveller Pausanias, and the author of the Suda, a Byzantine lexicon of the tenth century AD. The myth is one of the several examples of a devoted suitor courting in vain the cruel object of his desire, and eventually taking his life.