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TELESILLA

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 573 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TELESILLA , Greek poetess, a native of Argos, one of the so-called nine lyric muses. According to the traditional story, when Cleomenes, king of
Sparta
 , invaded the land of the Argives in 510 B.C., and slew all the males capable of bearing arms, Telesilla, dressed in men's clothes, put herself at the head of the women and repelled an attack upon the city of Argos. To commemorate this exploit, a statue of the poetess, in the act of putting on a
helmet
 , with books lying at her feet, was set up in the temple of Aphrodite at Argos. The festival Hybristica or Endymatia, in which men and women exchanged clothes, also celebrated the heroism of her female compatriots.
Herodotus
  (vi. 76) does not refer to the intervention of Telesilla, but mentions an oracle which predicted that the female should conquer the male, whence the tradition itself may have been derived. Further, the statue seen by Pausanias may not have been intended for Telesilla; it would equally represent Aphrodite, in her
character
  as wife of Ares and a warlike goddess (the books, however, seem out of place). The Hybristica, again, was most probably a religious festival connected with the
worship
  of some androgynous divinity. Of Telesilla's poems only two lines remain, quoted by the grammarian Hephaestion, apparently from a Parthenion, or song for a chorus of maidens.
See Pausanias ii. 20, 8;
Plutarch
 , De Virtut. Mulierum, 8; Clement of
Alexandria
 , Stromata, iv. 19, p. 522; Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Greeci, iii.; and especially Macan,
Herodotus
  iv.vi., i. 336 foil. and notes.


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