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Telesarchus or Telesarch (, Telesarkhos) is a little-attested Greek author who wrote a work on the early history of Argolis, called the Argolicum or Argolica. He is mentioned by Sextus Empiricus and scholia on Homer and on Euripides' Alcestis. The availability of his writings was limited even among the Romans.
Telesarchus (, Telesarkhos) is the name of several minor figures whose lives are attested in ancient Greek literary sources:
- Telesarchus (military commander), led forces against invading Gauls (Pausanias, Book 10)
- Telesarchus of Samos, in The Histories of Herodotus
- Telesarchus of Aegina, named by Pindar in Isthmian Ode 8
- Telesarchus, a little-attested Greek writer
Telesarchus (, Telesarkhos) was a Syro- Macedonian military commander from the region along the Orontes river. In 279 BC, Antiochus I sent him with a force of 500 men against invading Gauls led by Brennus.
Telesarchus was in command of a garrison that defended one of two covert routes over Mount Oeta. His mission was to prevent the plundering of the Temple of Athene, located within the district of Trachis and a particularly attractive target because of the richness of the offerings it held. Although Telesarchus succeeded in turning away the Gauls, he was killed in battle. Pausanias calls him "remarkably zealous in the cause of Greece". The Gauls who took the other route over Oeta went on to destroy Callium.