Telecleides
Sign in to saveTelecleides () was an Athenian Old Comic poet. A contemporary of Cratinus, he was active , and is known to have won at the Dionysia three times and the Lenaia five times. Only eight titles and a few fragments of his plays survive. 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, Sterrhoi, and Eumenides.
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It sits within the topics 5th-century BC Athenians, Ancient Athenian dramatists and playwrights and Old Comic poets.
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- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Athens
- Place of death
- Athens
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- Old Comedy
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Telecleides () was an Athenian Old Comic poet. A contemporary of Cratinus, he was active , and is known to have won at the Dionysia three times and the Lenaia five times. Only eight titles and a few fragments of his plays survive. 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, Sterrhoi, and Eumenides.
The standard edition of the fragments is Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin (eds.), Poetae Comici Graeci.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Telecleides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.