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Telamon (tragic character)
Telamo
also: Telamo, Telamon
The tragic character (in Ennius's Telamo) who in a single famous line dismisses divine providence: 'if the gods cared, it would go well with the good and ill with the wicked, which is not so.' Cotta quotes him on the gods' neglect of men.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §3.79 Telamo, however, dispatches the whole topic
Telamo, a character in a tragedy of Ennius, sums up the case against providence in one line: if the gods cared, the good would prosper and the wicked suffer, which is not so. Cotta uses the verse as the epigram of his whole attack on divine providence.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.39 a Telamon driven from his country, exiled and destitute
Telamon, father of Ajax, in the tragic versions (Ennius's and Accius's Telamo) shown ruined and in exile. He is Cicero's recurring test-case for whether Epicurean pleasure could console real grief.