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

Cratinus Cratinus ( grc-gre, Κρατῖνος; 519 BC – 422 BC) was an Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy. Life Cratinus was victorious 27 known times, eight times at the City Dionysia, first probably in the mid-to-late 450s BCE (IG II2 2325. 50), ...

, he was active , and is known to have won at the

Dionysia The Dionysia (, , ; Greek: Διονύσια) was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from 487 BC, comedies. It was the s ...

three times and the

Lenaia The Lenaia ( grc, Λήναια) was an annual Athenian festival with a dramatic competition. It was one of the lesser festivals of Athens and Ionia in ancient Greece. The Lenaia took place in Athens in Gamelion, roughly corresponding to January. T ...

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 The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the '' Works and Days'' of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the G ...

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

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