Telephus
mythological figure · 8 works · 9 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Mysian Telephus · Telephus, the son of Auge and Heracles
in the texts
Orations
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;
And Telephus, the son of Auge and Heracles, they say was reared not by a woman, but by a deer.
Clouds
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.
Odyssey
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;
On the Estate of Nicostratus
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;
Isthmean
A noble hero wounded first near the river Caïcus and later further wounded by Achilles in Mysia.
Who wounded noble Telephus with his spear by the banks of Caïcus?
And the voices of poets made known the youthful excellence of Achilles to those who had been unaware of it—Achilles, who stained the vine-covered plain of Mysia, spattering it with the dark blood of Telephus, and bridged a homecoming for the Atreids, and freed Helen, cutting with his spear the sinews of Troy, which had once tried to keep him from marshalling on the plain the work of man-slaying wa …
Olympian
Warrior who turned the Danaans to flight and attacked their ships, prompting Patroclus's stand beside Achilles.
Locrus gave him a city and a people to govern, and strangers came to him from Argos and Thebes, from Arcadia and Pisa, But among the settlers he chiefly honored the son of Actor and Aegina, Menoetius, whose son went with the Atreidae to the plain of Teuthras, and stood alone beside Achilles, when Telephus turned to flight the mighty Danaans, and attacked their ships beside the sea, to reveal to a …
Phaedo
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;
Chrestomathy
Defender of Teuthrania wounded by Achilles who is later healed in exchange for guiding the Greeks to Troy.
But Telephus comes to its defence and kills Thersander, the son of Polyneices, and is himself wounded by Achilles.
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.