Telesarchus

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] There is an edition of Scholia in Euripidem (which includes scholia on Alcestis) edited by Eduard Schwartz. Internet Archive^[4]. This gives evidence that the scholia tradition mentioning authors like Telesarchus was collected and studied in 19th-century scholarship. While it doesn’t necessarily present a new fact about Telesarchus himself, it supports the existence of a scholia witness tradition.