Telecleides
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Telecleides was an Athenian Old Comic
Old Comedy
Old Comedy is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians. The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes, whose works, with their pungent political satire and abundance of sexual and scatological innuendo, effectively...

 poet, and dates to the 440s and 430s BCE. Only six titles and a few fragments of his plays survive. One of his plays was The Amphictyons
The Amphictyons
The Amphictyons is one of the few remaining works of Telecleides of Greece.Athenaeus of Naucratis, the perfect life? I will, then, tell of the life of old which I provided for mortals. First, there was peace over all, like water over hands. The earth produced no terror and no disease; on the other...

, in which Telecleides presented a Golden Age of impossibly effortless plenty.

The standard edition of the fragments is Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin (eds.), Poetae Comici Graeci.
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