Telesilla (Greek: Τελέσιλλα; fl. 494 BC) was an ancient Greek poet, native of Argos. She was a distinguished woman who was especially renowned for her poetry and for her leadership of Argos through a political and military crisis and subsequent re-building. Antipater of Thessalonica included her in his canon of nine female poets. [To the mother of Gods] - Telesilla of Argos Daughters of Remembrance Descent from the heavens And sing with me The mother of Gods Who arrived, after wandering the springs and the mountains with my windswept hair Infatuated And when the King Zeus Saw the mother of Gods He threw a thunder from the sky And took the tambourines And broke the rocks. He took the tambourines. -Mother, return to the gods And stop wandering the mountains For there are deadly lions And grey wolves -I am not leaving for the gods, not until I’ve got my share, Which is half of the heavens, Half of the earth and the rest of the sea. Only then I shall leave. -So long, great queen Mother of Olympus Translated in English by Aristotelis Skamagkis music: Requiem For The Fallen by PaBlikMM
