Thelenes

Thelenes is invoked as a touchstone of rigorous dialectic in the great dialogs and in casual mathic speech, where his name signals a turn from courtesy to rigorous debate.

First Appearance and Context

• Presented in exhibits along the Hylaean Way’s historical galleries of the theoric golden age centered on the city‑state of Ethras: statues and frescoes show Thelenes striding across the Plane with interlocutors, with two figures behind foreshadowing his trial and ritual execution. The same display identifies him as teacher of Protas and situates the public teaching grounds (the Periklyne and its “Plane”).
• In mathic discourse, his name functions as shorthand for the moment an interlocutor has been maneuvered into a contradiction and their argument is dismantled.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Remembered as a devastating interlocutor from the dialog tradition, associated with the community of Theors.
• Accounts specify that he was executed by the Saecular Power following a judicial proceeding (contrasted with mob action); the Ethran depiction places the execution at the temples of the Deolaters atop the city’s hill.
• His reception in the extramuros world is tied to the Temnestrian Iconography, traced to a satire that mocks him by name.

Relationships

• Teacher–student: Thelenes is shown as the teacher of Protas.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Depicted striding across the Plane with interlocutors; the composition emphasizes public dialog and its consequences.
• No physical description survives in the present text beyond sculptural and painted poses.

Current Status/Location

• Deceased; remembered as executed under formal authority of the Saecular Power, with traditional placement at the temples of the Deolaters in Ethras.