Telesarchus

Telesarchus

Telesarchus (Polytonic|Τελέσαρχος) is a little-attested Greek author who wrote a work on the early history of Argolis, called the "Argolicum" or "Argolica". [W. McLeod, “The 'Epic Canon' of the Borgia Table: Hellenistic Lore or Roman Fraud?” "Transactions of the American Philological Association" 115 (1985), p. 161.] He is mentioned by Sextus Empiricus and scholia on Homer and on Euripides' "Alcestis". [Smith, "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology", v. 3, page 990; relevant passages from the Greek texts in Karl Müller, "Fragmenta historicorum graecorum" (Paris 1851), vol. 4, [http://books.google.com/books?id=lz0OAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA508&dq=Telesarchus&lr=&num=100&as_brr=3 p. 508.] ] The availability of his writings was limited even among the Romans. [Alan Cameron, "Greek Mythography in the Roman World" (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 163; also pp. 100–101.]

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