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Olympic Games in Athens  Timoleon Filimon (Greek: Τιμολέων
Φιλήμων 1833-1898) was a journalist, politician, a thinker of
the time and tutor of King George I.   He was the son of Ioannis
Filimon (el). He was born in 1833 in Nafplio (Nauplion). He
studied law at the university of Athens. When he was young he
was educated as a journalist in the newspaper Aion (el) which
was run by his father and from 1839 to 1857 he was a journalist
there. In 1857, he was jailed for three months for offending
King Otto I.  He was the secretary of the three-member committee
(Canaris-Zaimis-Grivas (fr)) who went to propose the Crown to
future King George I in Denmark. He later worked as a teacher of
the king (until 1867). In 1868 he was elected an MP of Attica
for the first time (and vice-president of the Parliament), and
again in the elections of 1875 and 1879. He was elected mayor of
Athens in 1887.  He