Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Nay more, it was late before the teaching and writing of discourses\r\nreached Greece. Alcmæon, the son of Perithus, of Crotona, first\r\ncomposed a treatise on nature. And it is related that Anaxagoras of\r\nClazomenæ, the son of Hegesibulus, first published a book in writing.\r\nThe first to adapt music to poetical compositions was Terpander of\r\nAntissa; and he set the laws of the Lacedæmonians to music. Lasus of\r\nHermione invented the dithyramb; Stesichorus of Himera, the hymn;\r\nAlcman the Spartan, the choral song; Anacreon of Teos, love songs;\r\nPindar the Theban, the dance accompanied with song. Timotheus of\r\nMiletus was the first to execute those musical compositions called\r\nνόμοι on the lyre, with dancing. Moreover, the iambus was invented\r\nby Archilochus<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_404\">[404]</span> of Paros, and the choliambus by Hipponax of Ephesus.\r\nTragedy owed its origin to Thespis the Athenian, and comedy to Susarion\r\nof Icaria. Their dates are handed down by the grammarians. But it were\r\ntedious to specify them accurately: presently, however, Dionysus, on\r\nwhose account the Dionysian spectacles are celebrated, will be shown to\r\nbe later than Moses. They say that Antiphon of Rhamnusium, the son of\r\nSophilus, first invented scholastic discourses and rhetorical figures,\r\nand was the first who pled causes for a fee, and wrote a forensic\r\nspeech for delivery,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_952\" id=\"FNanchor_952\">[952]</a> as Diodorus says. And Apollodorus of Cuma\r\nfirst assumed the name of critic, and was called a grammarian. Some\r\nsay it was Eratosthenes of Cyrene who was first so called, since he\r\npublished two books which he entitled <i>Grammatica</i>. The first who\r\nwas called a grammarian, as we now use the term, was Praxiphanes, the\r\nson of Disnysophenes of Mitylene. Zeleucus the Locrian was reported to\r\nhave been the first to have framed laws (in writing). Others say that\r\nit was Menos the son of Zeus, in the time of Lynceus. He comes after\r\nDanaus, in the eleventh generation from Inachus and Moses; as we shall\r\nshow a little further on. And Lycurgus, who lived many years after the\r\ntaking of Troy, legislated for the Lacedæmonians a hundred and fifty\r\nyears before the Olympiads. We have spoken before of the age of Solon.\r\nDraco (he was a legislator too) is discovered to have lived about the\r\nthree hundred and ninth Olympiad. Antilochus, again, who wrote of the\r\nlearned men from the age of Pythagoras to the death of Epicurus, which\r\ntook place in the tenth day of the month Gamelion, makes up altogether\r\nthree hundred and twelve years. Moreover, some say that Phanothea, the\r\nwife of Icarius, invented the heroic hexameter; others Themis, one of\r\nthe Titanides. Didymus, however, in his work <i>On the Pythagorean\r\nPhilosophy</i>, relates that Theano of Crotona was the first woman\r\nwho cultivated philosophy and composed poems. The Hellenic philosophy\r\nthen, according<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_405\">[405]</span> to some, apprehended the truth accidentally, dimly,\r\npartially; as others will have it, was set a-going by the devil.\r\nSeveral suppose that certain powers, descending from heaven, inspired\r\nthe whole of philosophy. But if the Hellenic philosophy comprehends not\r\nthe whole extent of the truth, and besides is destitute of strength to\r\nperform the commandments of the Lord, yet it prepares the way for the\r\ntruly royal teaching; training in some way or other, and moulding the\r\ncharacter, and fitting him who believes in Providence for the reception\r\nof the truth.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XVI. 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