Telesilla

[6] According to both Plutarch and Pausanias, when Cleomenes I of Sparta attacked Argos in 494 BC and defeated the Argive army at Sepeia, Telesilla organised the old men, slaves, and women of the city to defend it until the Spartans withdrew.

[8][9] It is generally believed to be invented to explain a Delphic oracle which referred to the female driving out the male; the inclusion of Telesilla in the legend was perhaps inspired by something in her poetry.

[18] It is addressed to "maidens" (κοραι), and was possibly a choral poem written for performance at a local festivals,[14] used in the education of girls of noble families.

[19] ἁ δ᾿ Ἄρτεμις, ὦ κόραι, φεύγοισα τὸν Ἀλφεόν And Artemis, girls, fleeing from Alpheus Telesilla's poetry was apparently admired in antiquity.

[2] According to Pausanias, there was a stele to Telesilla in front of the temple of Aphrodite in Argos which depicted her holding a helmet and with her poems on the ground around her,[14] and Tatian reports that Niceratus sculpted her.

's poem "Telesila",[22] and she is included in Judy Chicago's Heritage Floor, accompanying the place setting for Aspasia in The Dinner Party.