---
name: Teles of Megara
name_greek: Τέλης ὁ Μεγαρεύς
eul_aid: kkk
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/teles-of-megara-kkk"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: "Koine (phi, frg)"
affiliation: Cynic
works_count: 8
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Teles of Megara

*Τέλης ὁ Μεγαρεύς*

**eul_aid:** `kkk` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/teles-of-megara-kkk)

Teles of Megara was a Hellenistic Cynic philosopher. Surviving fragments of his diatribes. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [On Circumstances](https://eulogikon.org/works/teles-megara-circumstances-kkk-af) — *Περὶ περιστάσεων* · `kkk-af`
- [On Flight](https://eulogikon.org/works/teles-megara-flight-kkk-ah) — *Περὶ φυγῆς* · `kkk-ah`
- [On Impassibility](https://eulogikon.org/works/teles-megara-impassibility-kkk-ag) — *Περὶ ἀπαθείας* · `kkk-ag`
- [On Pleasure Not Being the End](https://eulogikon.org/works/teles-megara-pleasure-not-end-kkk-ac) — *Περὶ τοῦ μὴ εἶναι τέλος ἡδονήν* · `kkk-ac`
- [On Seeming and Being](https://eulogikon.org/works/teles-megara-seeming-being-kkk-ad) — *Περὶ τοῦ δοκεῖν καὶ τοῦ εἶναι* · `kkk-ad`
- [On Self-Sufficiency](https://eulogikon.org/works/teles-megara-self-sufficiency-kkk-ae) — *Περὶ αὐταρκείας* · `kkk-ae`
- [On the Comparison of Poverty and Wealth](https://eulogikon.org/works/teles-megara-poverty-wealth-kkk-aa) — *Περὶ συγκρίσεως πενίας καὶ πλούτου* · `kkk-aa`
- [On the Comparison of Poverty and Wealth](https://eulogikon.org/works/teles-megara-poverty-wealth-kkk-ab) — *Περὶ συγκρίσεως πενίας καὶ πλούτου* · `kkk-ab`

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