# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/telesilla
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:45:04.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/telesilla"
name: "Telesilla"
slug: "telesilla"
description: "Telesilla was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Argos, active in the fifth century BC. She is known for her role in the defence of Argos in 494 BC. The historicity of this episode continues to be disputed. Only a few fragments of her poetry survive, several of which reference the gods Apollo and Artemis. The longest surviving fragment, only two lines, is quoted by the grammarian Hephaestion to illustrate the Telesillan metre, named after her. She was apparently famous in antiquity, included by Antipater of Thessalonica in his canon of women poets; in the twentieth century she inspired a poem by the imagist poet H.D."
tagline: "Late 6th century and early 5th century BC Greek poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Telesilla_L%C3%A9vy-Dhurmer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-460"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.45
  momentum:             0.8490566037735849
  historical:           19.49978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B3%B0%E5%8B%92%E5%B8%8C%E6%8B%89"
    title: "泰勒希拉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "تيليسيلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "تیلیسیلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesil%C2%B7la"
    title: "Telesil·la"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B1"
    title: "Τελέσιλλα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla_de_Argoso"
    title: "Telesilla de Argoso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesila"
    title: "Telesila"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesila"
    title: "Telesila"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9sille"
    title: "Télésille"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Телесила"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesila"
    title: "Telesila"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Телесилла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesilla"
    title: "Telesilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "தெலிசிலா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Телесилла"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287216"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump