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Telecleides

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Telecleides (Template:Lang-grc) was an Athenian Old Comic poet. A contemporary of Cratinus, he was active c. 450 BC – c. 420 BC, and is known to have won at the Dionysia three times and the Lenaia five times.[1] Only eight titles and a few fragments of his plays survive.[1] One of his plays was The Amphictyons, in which Telecleides presented a Golden Age of impossibly effortless plenty. His other known plays include Apseudeis, Hesiodoi, Prytanes, and Sterrhoi.[2]

The standard edition of the fragments is Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin (eds.), Poetae Comici Graeci.

References

  1. ^ a b Bäbler, Balbina. "Telecleides". Brill's New Pauly. doi:10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1202830.
  2. ^ Public Domain Smith, Philip (1870). "Telecleides". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 988.



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