Telesarchus or Telesarch (Greek: Τελέσαρχος, Telesarkhos) is a little-attested Greek author who wrote a work on the early history of Argolis, called the Argolicum or Argolica.[1] He is mentioned by Sextus Empiricus and scholia on Homer and on Euripides' Alcestis.[2] The availability of his writings was limited even among the Romans.[3] There is an edition of Scholia in Euripidem (which includes scholia on Alcestis) edited by Eduard Schwartz. Internet Archive[4]. This gives evidence that the scholia tradition mentioning authors like Telesarchus was collected and studied in 19th-century scholarship. While it doesn’t necessarily present a new fact about Telesarchus himself, it supports the existence of a scholia witness tradition.
References
edit- ↑ W. McLeod, “The 'Epic Canon' of the Borgia Table: Hellenistic Lore or Roman Fraud?” Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985), p. 161.
- ↑ Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 3, page 990; relevant passages from the Greek texts in Karl Müller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum (Paris 1851), vol. 4, p. 508.
- ↑ Alan Cameron, Greek Mythography in the Roman World (Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 163; also pp. 100–101.
- ↑ Schwartz, Eduard. "Internet archive".
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