In this paper I shed some light on one aspect of the Timarion, which has been rather neglected in modern scholarship, namely the motif of the katabasis to Hades and the elements of afterlife imagery. To my knowledge, this aspect of the satire has not been the subject of any separate studies and has not been treated adequately by researchers dealing with the work. However, in my opinion the question of eschatological motives in the Timarion deserves more attention, not only in the light of its affinity to other literary texts belonging to the same genre, which is rather obvious, but – strange and improbable as it may seem at first glance – regarding possible traces of popular or religious elements in the description of the eschatological landscape
