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grounds for thinking that Raoul-Rochette may be TELESILLA (TeAe'holha) of Argos, a celeright in his conjecture, that this statue was the cele- brated lyric poetess and heroine, of the number of
brated Hermes which stood in the Cerameicus, at the those who were called the Nine Lyric Muses
junction of three roads,which is spoken of by the an- (Antip. Thess. in Anth. Pal. ix. 26), flourished
cient writers both as'Epies'reTPcaepaXos and as about 01. 67, B. C. 510, in the times of Cleolnenes'Epcs TrpoKC&paxov, and which is an object of'some I. and Demaratus, kings of Sparta. (Clinton, F. If.
interest on account of the allusion to it in the Tppxci- s. a., who corrects the errors of Eusebius and FaXi.s of Aristophanes. It is impossible here to discuss bricius). Plutarch relates the tradition that she
the question at length; those who wish to pursue it was of noble birth, but was afflicted with a disease,
may consult the following authorities. (Phot. I.c. and concerning the cure of which she consulted an
s.v. TpLKe'PaAot; Harpocrat. s.r. TpLKeipaXos'Ep/tis, oracle, and received an answer directing her to
with the note of Valesius; Hesych. s. v.'Epuis serve the Muses. In obedience to the divine
TpLKE'paXos; Etym. Mag. s. v. TptKE'paXos; Aris- command, she applied herself to poetry and music;
toph. Frag. Triphal. No. 11, ed. Bergk, ap. Meineke, and was soon rewarded by restoration to health,
Frag. Corn. Graec. vol. ii. p. 1168, ed. Dindorf, in and by the admiration which the Argive women beDidot's Bibliotheca, p. 510; Siivern on the Clouds stowed upon her poetry. In the war of Argos
of Aristophanes, p. 87.) This Hermes was set up against Sparta, she obtained the highest renown,
by Procleides or Patrocleides, the friend of Hip- not only by her poetry, but her personal valour;
parchus; and therefore, if Raoul-Rochette be right, for, not content with encouraging her countrymen
Telesarchides must have flourished under the by her lyre and song, she took up arms at the head
Peisistratids, and probably before the murder of of a band of her countrywomen, and greatly conHipparchus in B. c. 514. (R. Rochette, Lettre a tributed to the victory which they gained over the
M. Schorn, pp. 412, 413, 2d ed.) [P. S.] Spartans. (Plut. de Mul. Virt. p. 245, d. e.;
TELESARCHUS (TeX'arapXos), a Syro-Mace- Paus. ii. 20. ~ 7; Max. Tyr. Diss. xxxvii. 5, vol.
donian officer, who commanded a force of 500 men ii. p. 209, ed. Reiske, Diss. xxi. p. 218, ed Davis;
sent by Antiochus I. to assist the Greeks in the Suid. s. v.; comp. Herod. vi. 77). In memory of.
defence of Thermopylae against the Gauls under this exploit, her statue was erected in the temple of
Brennus, B. C. 279. On that occasion he displayed Aphrodite at Argos, with the emblems of a poetess
the utmost zeal and courage, and rendered impor- and a heroine (Paus. 1. c.; Tatian. ad Graec. 52,
tant services to the cause of the confederates, but p. 114, ed. Worth); and Ares was worshipped in
was at length slain while valiantly defending a side that city as a patron deity of women (Lucian.
pass over Mount Oeta, by which the Gauls sought Amos: 30, vol. ii. p. 430); and the prowess of her
to force their passage. (Paus. x. 20. ~ 5, 22. female associates was commemorated by the annual
~ 1.) [E. H. B.] festival called'TpLa-Tucd, in which the women and
TELESARCHUS (TehoaapXos), the author of the men appeared respectively in the attire of the
a work on the early history of Argolis. (Sextus other sex: this festival appears to be the same as
Empir. adv. illath. i. 1'2; Schol. in Earip.. tlc. 2; the'Evlvpcar-a. (Plut. (de Mul. Virt.. c.; de lus. 9,
Schol. in IHor. II. ii. 690.) p. 1134, c.; Clem. Alex. Strom. iv. p. 522, Sylburg;
TELE'SIAS (TeXsE'ia), a Theban musician, of Polyaen. Strat. viii. 33.) Miiller, however, regards
the time of the later Athenian dithyrallb, whose this whole story as having a decidedly fabulous coImcareer is adduced by Plutarch as an instance of the plexion: he explains the so-called statue of Telesilla,
force of early education, whether good or bad. in the temple of Aphrodite, as being a statue of the
(Plut. de Alus. 31, p. 1142, b. c.) I-le relates, on goddess, of that well-known type, in which she was
the authority of Aristoxenus, with whom the represented in the act of arming herself; and he
musician was contemporary, that Telesias had been ascribes quite a different origin to the festival of
carefully instructed, when young, in the works of the Hybhristica. (Dorier, bk. i. c. 8. ~ 6; Proley.
the most distinguished musicians, such as Pindar, zu Mythol. p. 405; see also Grote, History of Greece,
Dionysius of Thebes, Lamprus, and Pratinas, and vol. iv. pp. 432-433.)
the great lyric poets; and that he had become an Our information respecting the poetry of Teleexcellent flute-player, and thoroughly acquainted silla is very scanty. Athenaeus (xiv. p. 619, b.)
with the other branches of his art: but that, in states that she composed an ode to Apollo, called
middle life, he was so taken with the dramatic and NMIAhias, which Bode explains as the Argive name
artificial style of music which then prevailed, that of the Paean, derived from the first words of the
he neglected his old models, and gave himself up strain, RepX' (or gteX') c (Pl.'?XAe. (Pollux, ix.
to the study of the productions of Philoxenus and 123; Bode, Gesch. d. lyr. Dichtkenst, pt. ii. p. 119.)
Timotheus, of which he chose the most novel and Pausanias also quotes from her poems in honour of
artificial: but, when he set himself to the work of Apollo and Artemis (iii. 35. ~ 2, ii. 28. ~ 2), and
composition, and tried both styles, that of Pindar the statement respecting the children of Niobe,
and that of Philoxenus, he found himself quite quoted from her by Apollodorus (Bibl. iii. 5. ~ 6),
unable to imitate the latter successfully, so great must have been derived from a similar source. A
was the power of his early training in the better scholiast on Homer (Od. xiii. 289) mentions her
style. [P. S.] representation of Virtue as being similar to that of
TELE'SIAS, of Athens, a statuary, of unknown Xenophon in the celebrated fable of Prodicus;
time, mentioned only by Clemens Alexandrinus and there are two or three grammatical references
(Protrept. p. 18, Sylb.), who states, on the authority to single words used by her (Ath. xi. p. 467, f.;
of Philochorus, that he made the statues of Po- Eustath. p. 1207. 14; Poll. ii. 23; Hesych. s. v.
seidon and Amphitrite, nine cubits in height, BeXTIc6'as). The only complete verses of her
which were worshipped in the island of Tenos. poetry which remain are the following two, which
(Philoch. Fr. 185, ed. MUller, Frayg.Hist. in Didot's seem to come from a Parthenion, composed for a
Bibliotheca, vol. i. p. 414). [P. S.] chorus of Argive virgins, on the subject of the love
TELE'S1CLES (TeAeorcXAs). [ARCHILOCH US]. of the river Alpheus for Artemis: