Telesilla

Telesilla

(Τελέσιλλα). A celebrated Argive lyric poetess and heroine, who flourished about B.C. 510. She led a band of her countrywomen in the war with the Spartans and took part in their victory, so that her statue was erected in the Temple of Aphrodité at Argos (Pausan. ii. 20, 7). Some fragments of her verse are printed in Bergk's Poet. Lyr. Graeci (1878). See Neue, De Telesillae Reliquiis (1843).

Telesilla Telesilla, Argive poetess

• Paus. 2.20.8, Paus. 2.28.2, Paus. 2.35.2
• puts herself at head of women and repulses Lacedaemonians: Paus. 2.20.8ff.
• on the death of the children of Niobe: Apollod. 3.5.6
• her statue: Paus. 2.20.8