Telesto (mythology)

Template:Short description Template:Sidebar In Greek mythology, Telesto or Telestho (Template:IPAc-en; Ancient Greek: Τελεστώ means 'success') was an Oceanid, one of the 3,000 water-nymphs daughters of Titans Oceanus and Tethys.<ref name=":02">Template:Cite book</ref> She was the personification of the divine blessing or success.<ref>The Mythology of the Night Sky: An Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Ancient Greek legends by David E. Falkner</ref> Hesiod describes her as "wearing a yellow peplos".<ref>Hesiod, Theogony 358</ref>

Namesake

Telesto, a moon of Saturn, discovered in 1980 by Reitsema, Smith, Larson, and Fountain, is named for her.

References

• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.