Theotimus of Tomi was a late antique historian from the city of Tomi on the Black Sea coast. He is known solely from a citation by the 5th-century church historian Socrates Scholasticus, which places his life and work in the late 4th or early 5th century CE.
His only attested work is a lost History of the Goths. Socrates records that Theotimus detailed the Goths' conversion to Christianity during the era of the Arian bishop Ulfilas. No further biographical details survive.
Theotimus is a lost source. His work provided an early Roman provincial perspective on the Goths and was used as an authority by Socrates Scholasticus. His location in Tomi, a city directly affected by Gothic settlements, suggests his history contained local testimony on Gothic-Roman relations and the spread of Arian Christianity.
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