Telecleides () was an Athenian Old Comic poet. A contemporary of

Cratinus Cratinus (; 519 BC – 422 BC) was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy. Life Cratinus won prizes for his plays on 27 known occasions, eight times at the City Dionysia, first probably in the mid-to-late 450s BCE (IG II2 2325. 50), and t ...

, he was active , 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

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of impossibly effortless plenty. His other known plays include ''Apseudeis'', ''Hesiodoi'', ''Prytanes'', ''Sterrhoi'', and ''Eumenides''. The standard edition of the fragments is Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin (eds.), Poetae Comici Graeci.

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Ancient Athenian dramatists and playwrights 5th-century BC Athenians Old Comic poets {{AncientGreece-writer-stub