Telecleides was an Athenian Old Comic poet. A contemporary of Cratinus, he was active c. 450 BC - c. 420 BC, 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.
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Telecleides was an Athenian Old Comic poet. A contemporary of Cratinus, he was active c. 450 BC - c. 420 BC, 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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