TELESILLA  , See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek poetess, a native of See also:

• ARGOS

Argos, one of the so-called nine lyric See also:

• MUSES, THE (Gr. Mo6o-at, the thinkers)

muses . According to the traditional See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, when Cleomenes, See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav)

Sparta, invaded the See also:

• LAND

land of the Argives in 510 B.C., and slew all the See also:

• MALES

males capable of bearing arms, Telesilla, dressed in men's clothes, put herself at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the See also:

• WOMEN

women and repelled an attack upon the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Argos . To commemorate this exploit, a statue of the poetess, in the See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of putting on a See also:

• HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the English word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. " hell," &c.)

helmet, with books lying at her feet, was set up in the See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple of See also:

• APHRODITE

Aphrodite at Argos . The festival Hybristica or Endymatia, in which men and women exchanged clothes, also celebrated the heroism of her See also:

• FEMALE

female compatriots . See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus (vi . 76) does not refer to the intervention of Telesilla, but mentions an See also:

• ORACLE (Lat. oraculum, from ora' to pray; the corresponding Greek word is uavreiov or Xpnuri7pwov)

oracle which predicted that the female should conquer the male, whence the tradition itself may have been derived . Further, the statue seen by See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias may not have been intended for Telesilla; it would equally represent Aphrodite, in her See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character as wife of See also:

• ARES

Ares and a warlike goddess (the books, however, seem out of See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place) . The Hybristica, again, was most probably a religious festival connected with the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of some androgynous divinity . Of Telesilla's poems only two lines remain, quoted by the grammarian See also:

• HEPHAESTION

Hephaestion, apparently from a Parthenion, or See also:

• SONG

song for a See also:

• CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus of maidens . See Pausanias ii . 20, 8; See also:

• PLUTARCH
• PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

Plutarch, De Virtut . Mulierum, 8; See also:

• CLEMENT (Lat. Clemens, i.e. merciful; Gr. K)4gs)
• CLEMENT, FRANCOIS (1714-1793)
• CLEMENT, JACQUES (1567-1589)

Clement of See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria, Stromata, iv .

19, p . 522; See also:

• BERGK, THEODOR (1812—1881)

Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Greeci, iii.; and especially Macan, Herodotus iv.—vi., i . 336 See also:

• FOIL

foil. and notes .