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

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 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 of Man, Ages, Gold being the first and the one during ...

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