Editing Tecmessa

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The name '''Tecmessa''' ({{langx|grc|Τέκμησσα|Tékmēssa}}) refers to the following characters in [[Greek mythology]]:

* [[Tecmessa of Phrygia|Tecmessa]], daughter of [[Teleutas]], King of [[Phrygia]], or [[Teuthras]], King of [[Teuthrania]] in [[Mysia]], or [[Tethras]] or [[Teuthas]].<ref>[[Sir Richard Jebb, 1st Baronet|Sir Richard C. Jebb]], ''Commentary on [[Sophocles]]: [[Ajax (play)|Ajax]]: "''[[Christian Lobeck|Lobeck]] remarks that the father of Tecmessa is called Teuthras by [[Malela]] and others, Tethras by [[George Kedrenos|Cedrenus]], and Teuthas by [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]]"</ref> During the Trojan War, [[Ajax the Great|Telamonian Ajax]] kills Tecmessa's father and takes her captive; his reason for doing so may have been, as the 1st-century BC Roman poet, [[Horace]], wrote, that Ajax was captivated by Tecmessa's beauty.<ref>Carmina 2.4.5-6</ref> In [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Ajax (play)|Ajax]]'', Tecmessa unsuccessfully tries to dissuade Ajax from committing suicide. She is the first to find his corpse, which she promptly covers with her own clothing to prevent further heartache. Their infant son, [[Eurysaces]], however, survives the incident.<ref>[[Sophocles]]. ''Ajax''. Trans. David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. United States of America: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. Print.</ref>
* Tecmessa, one of the [[Amazons]] killed by [[Heracles]] in his quest for the girdle of [[Hippolyte]].<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], 4.16.2</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==
* [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica|The Library of History]]'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Sophocles]], ''The Ajax of Sophocles e''dited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0184 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Sophocles, ''Sophocles. Vol 2: Ajax. Electra. Trachiniae. Philoctetes'' with an English translation by F. Storr. The Loeb classical library, 21. Francis Storr. London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company. 1913. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0183 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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