In the PC videogame Titan Quest, the Telchines appear as Telkines and are powerful enemy sorcerers with grey skin and glowing eyes that act as bosses.

* The Telchines are mentioned in David Drake's book The Mirror of Worlds.

" There are, indeed, various names affirmed to designate the ante-Hellenic inhabitants of many parts of Greece — the Pelasgi, the Leleges, the Curetes, the Kaukones, the Aones, the Temmikes, the Hyantes, the Telchines, the Boeotian Thracians, the Teleboae, the Ephyri, the Phlegyae, & c. These are names belonging to legendary, not to historical Greece — extracted out of a variety of conflicting legends by the logographers and subsequent historians, who strung together out of them a supposed history of the past, at a time when the conditions of historical evidence were very little understood.

According to a statement of Stesichorus noted by Eustathius, Stesichorus " called the Keres by the name Telchines ", whom Eustathius identified with the Kuretes of Crete, who could call up squalls of wind and would brew potions from herbs ( noted in Harrison, p 171 ).

On Rhodes, Telchines were the name given to similar chthonic men, nine in number, remembered by Greeks as dangerous Underworld smiths and magicians, and multiplied into an entire autochthonous race that had reared Poseidon but had been supplanted by Apollo in his Helios role.

With the sea goddess Thalassa ( whose own name simply means " sea " but is derived from a pre-Greek root ), he fathered the Telchines and all sea life.

In Greek mythology, the Telchines ( Greek: Τελχῖνες Telkhines ) were the original inhabitants of the island of Rhodes, and were known in Crete and Cyprus.

* The Telchines ( Telkhines ) are the basis for the Seaborn books by Chris Howard, Saltwater Witch ( Lykeion, 2004 ), Seaborn ( Juno Books, 2008 ), and the sequel, Sea Throne ( 2009 )

According to John Tzetzes the kourotrophos, or nurse of Poseidon was Arne, who denied knowing where he was, when Cronus came searching ; according to Diodorus Siculus Poseidon was raised by the Telchines on Rhodes, just as Zeus was raised by the Korybantes on Crete.

Another version says that Rhea accompanied them to Crete from Rhodes, where nine of the Telchines, known as the Curetes, were selected to bring up Zeus.

In another story there were nine Telchines, children of Thalassa and Pontus ; they had flippers instead of hands and dogs ' heads and were known as fish children.

The Telchines were entrusted by Rhea with the upbringing of Poseidon, which they accomplished with the aid of Capheira ( Καφείρα ), a daughter of Oceanus.

The chthonic spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarves and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.

By a nymph, Pareia, he had four sons, Eurymedon, Nephalion, Chryses and Philolaus, who were killed by Heracles in revenge for the murder of the latter's two companions ; and by Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son Euxanthius.

Walter Burkert among others suggests that the archaic groups or societies of lesser gods mirror real cult associations :" It may be surmised that smith guilds lie behind Cabeiri, Idaian Dactyloi, Telchines, and Cyclopes.

She was a local nymph and one of the aboriginal Telchines of the island.

They also drove the Telchines out of Rhodes.

In myth, the Cabeiri bear many similarities to other fabulous races, such as the Telchines of Rhodes, the Cyclopes, the Dactyls, the Korybantes, and the Kuretes.

These different groups were often confused or identified with one another since many of them, like the Cyclopes and Telchines, were also associated with metallurgy.

The first inhabitants of Rhodes were identified by Hellenes as the Telchines.

The Telchines were associated and sometimes confused with the Cyclopes, Dactyls and Curetes.

In the classical records of the post-catastrophe period, the Telchines tend to play an important part which link them to myths involving Atlantis.

Ovid in his Ibis mentions that Makelo, like the other Telchines, was killed with a thunderbolt ; according to Callimachus and Nonnus, however, Makelo was the only one to be spared.

Although many Telchines are referenced in the game, only Megalesios, Aktaios and Ormenos are ever encountered ( and fought against ) by the player.

The three Telchines are assaulting three different locations.

Telchines use their black magic not only to get back at the gods, but to create weapons that can harm not just immortals but mortals too.

The Telchines, for example, were a class of half-human, half-fish or dolphin aquatic daemons said to have been the first inhabitants of Rhodes.

The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.

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The Astros finished fourth in the west, but new talent was starting to appear.

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However, this and similar legends appear to have arisen only after Kamatari's descendant Fujiwara no Yoritsune became the fourth shogun of the Kamakura shogunate in 1226, some time after the name Kamakura appears in the historical record. It used to be also called ( short for ).

Tom Baker, the fourth actor to play the Doctor, had declined to appear in the special, and the plot was reworked to explain the events in the clips.

For a time, Custer's men appear to have been deployed by company, in standard cavalry fighting formation — the skirmish line, with every fourth man holding the horses, though this arrangement would have robbed Custer of a quarter of his firepower.

The first specifically Christmas hymns for Christians that we know of appear in fourth century Rome.

* October 17 – The Animals appear a fourth time on The Ed Sullivan Show.

To sum up: the third and fourth books appear in the oldest tradition as a single book, and they comprise pieces by different authors in different styles, none of which can be assigned to Tibullus with any certainty.

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* September 12 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, for the fourth & final time, performing songs from their new album Help !.

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