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TELESILLA , See also:Greek poetess, a native of See also:Argos, one of the so-called nine lyric See also:muses. According to the traditional See also: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, invaded the See also:land of the Argives in 510 B.C., and slew all the See also:males capable of bearing arms, Telesilla, dressed in men's clothes, put herself at the See also:head of the See also:women and repelled an attack upon the See also:city of Argos. To commemorate this exploit, a statue of the poetess, in the See also:act of putting on a See also:helmet, with books lying at her feet, was set up in the See also:temple of See also:Aphrodite at Argos. The festival Hybristica or Endymatia, in which men and women exchanged clothes, also celebrated the heroism of her See also:female compatriots. See also:Herodotus (vi. 76) does not refer to the intervention of Telesilla, but mentions an See also: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 may not have been intended for Telesilla; it would equally represent Aphrodite, in her See also:character as wife of See also:Ares and a warlike goddess (the books, however, seem out of See also:place). The Hybristica, again, was most probably a religious festival connected with the See also:worship of some androgynous divinity. Of Telesilla's poems only two lines remain, quoted by the grammarian See also:Hephaestion, apparently from a Parthenion, or See also:song for a See also:chorus of maidens.
See Pausanias ii. 20, 8; See also:Plutarch, De Virtut. Mulierum, 8; See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria, Stromata, iv. 19, p. 522; See also:Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Greeci, iii.; and especially Macan, Herodotus iv.—vi., i. 336 See also:foil. and notes.
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