Telesphorus (general)

Telesphoros (Greek Τελέσφορος; † after 312 BC) was a Macedonian general in the time of Diadochenkriege. He was a nephew of Antigonus Diadochenherrschers Monophthalmos.

During the third Diadochenkrieges Telesphoros BC was ordered at the beginning of the year 313 by his uncle at the head of an army, with which he translated to fifty ships from Asia to the Peloponnese, in the fight against Cassander. He succeeded in depriving the enemy of several cities, only Sicyon and Corinth he left untouched, probably out of consideration to the allies of Antigonus Polyperchon whose daughter Kratesipolis prevailed in these cities. Subsequently, Telesphoros involved with twenty ships, in conjunction with Medius of Larissa, in a naval battle against Cassander before Oreos ( Evia ).

During the year change to 312 BC Telesphoros renounced by his uncle because he felt from his cousin Ptolemy reset, which was equipped with a large military and naval force landed in Hellas. With the intention to conquer its own territory, occupied Telesphoros and his followers, the Acropolis of Elis, made ​​himself master of the Olympian sanctuary and stole from the treasury of the Temple of Zeus and fifty talents of silver in order to finance his mercenaries can. Since the desecration of this holy place could have a negative impact on the reputation of Antigonus in Greece, Ptolemy marched immediately to the Peloponnese, was taken quickly defeated and captured by the Telesphoros. Ptolemy refunded back to the temple treasury, for which the Antigonus a statue was erected in the Olympic sanctuary.

The trace of the Telesphoros lost it. Helmut Berve speculated that he might have been identical to a later mentioned the same person at the court of Lysimachus in Thrace. This Telesphoros was sentenced to death by Lysimachus and thrown to the lions, after he had uttered derogatory about a musical performance of Arsinoe II.