# Telecleides

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{{Short description|5th-century Athenian Old Comedy poet}}
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'''Telecleides''' ({{langx|grc|Τηλεκλείδης}}) was an Athenian [Old Comic](/source/Old_Comedy) poet.  A contemporary of [Cratinus](/source/Cratinus), he was active {{circa|450 BC|420 BC}}, and is known to have won at the [Dionysia](/source/Dionysia) three times and the [Lenaia](/source/Lenaia) five times.<ref name=Pauly>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bäbler |first=Balbina |encyclopedia=Brill's New Pauly |entry=Telecleides |doi=10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1202830}}</ref>  Only eight titles and a few fragments of his plays survive.<ref name=Pauly/> One of his plays was ''The Amphictyons'', in which Telecleides presented a [Golden Age](/source/Golden_Age) of impossibly effortless plenty. His other known plays include ''Apseudeis'', ''Hesiodoi'', ''Prytanes'', ''Sterrhoi'', and ''Eumenides''.<ref>{{cite DGRBM |title=Telecleides |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ACL3129.0003.001/996?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=telecleides |volume=3 |page=988 |publisher=University of Michigan}}</ref>

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

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