Telephus · Atlas

in the texts

OrationsImperial · Greek

Mythological figure exposed as an infant in Arcadia and nursed by a hind sent by Fortune.

She it was, too, who found Pindar exposed in Boeotia, and Telephus in Arcadia, and the kings of the Romans in Italy;

oration 64 ¶

And Telephus, the son of Auge and Heracles, they say was reared not by a woman, but by a deer.

oration 85 ¶

CloudsClassical · Greek

A mythological/tragic beggar-king figure whom Just Cause recalls Unjust Cause once pretended to be.

And yet formerly you were a beggar saying that you were the Mysian Telephus, and gnawing the maxims of Pandeletus out of your little wallet.

clouds ¶

OdysseyClassical · Greek

Named as the father of Eurypylos, the handsome warrior killed by Neoptolemos.

Many a man did he kill in battle - I cannot name every single one of those whom he slew while fighting on the side of the Argives, but will only say how he killed that valiant hero Eurypylos son of Telephus, who was the handsomest man I ever saw except Memnon;

book 11 ¶

On the Estate of NicostratusClassical · Greek

A man who claimed Nicostratus had given him all his property as a gift, but soon desisted from the claim.

Telephus asserted that Nicostratus had made him a gift of all his property;

on the estate of nicostratus ¶

PhaedoClassical · Greek

A character in a play of Aeschylus whose description of the path to the underworld Socrates says is mistaken.

And the journey is not as Telephus says in the play of Aeschylus;

phaedo ¶

ChrestomathyLate Antiquity · Greek

Defender of Teuthrania wounded by Achilles who is later healed in exchange for guiding the Greeks to Troy.

Then Achilles heals Telephus, who had come to Argos in accordance with an oracle, on condition that he should become their guide for the voyage to Ilium.

chrestomathy ¶

But Telephus comes to its defence and kills Thersander, the son of Polyneices, and is himself wounded by Achilles.

chrestomathy ¶