Telestas
or TELESTES (Τελέστας, τελέστης).
1. A dancer, employed in the tragedies of Aeschylus; of whom Athenaeus (i. p. 22a.) relates that his skill was so great, that, in the representation of the Seven against Thebes, he made the actions manifest by his mimetic dancing, no doubt as leader of the chorus. (Müller, Hist. Lit. of Greece, vol. i. p. 314.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.