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]
References
^W. McLeod, “The 'Epic Canon' of the Borgia Table: Hellenistic Lore or Roman Fraud?” Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985), p. 161.