{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Therefore those who prophesied in the time of Darius Hystaspes, about\r\nthe second year of his reign,—Haggai, and Zechariah, and the angel of\r\nthe twelve, who prophesied about the first year of the forty-eighth\r\nOlympiad,—are demonstrated to be older than Pythagoras, who is said to\r\nhave lived in the sixty-second Olympiad, and than Thales, the oldest\r\nof the wise men of the Greeks, who lived about the fiftieth Olympiad.\r\nThose wise men that are classed with Thales were then contemporaneous,\r\nas Andron says in the <i>Tripos</i>. For Heraclitus being posterior\r\nto Pythagoras, mentions him in his book. Whence indisputably the\r\nfirst Olympiad, which was demonstrated to be four hundred and seven\r\nyears later than the Trojan war, is found to be prior to the age of\r\nthe above-mentioned prophets, together with those called the seven\r\nwise<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_436\">[436]</span> men. Accordingly it is easy to perceive that Solomon, who lived\r\nin the time of Menelaus (who was during the Trojan war), was earlier\r\nby many years than the wise men among the Greeks. And how many years\r\nMoses preceded him we showed, in what we said above. And Alexander,\r\nsurnamed Polyhistor, in his work on the Jews, has transcribed some\r\nletters of Solomon to Vaphres king of Egypt, and to the king of the\r\nPhenicians at Tyre, and theirs to Solomon; in which it is shown that\r\nVaphres sent eighty thousand Egyptian men to him for the building of\r\nthe temple, and the other as many, along with a Tyrian artificer, the\r\nson of a Jewish mother, of the tribe of Dan,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1031\" id=\"FNanchor_1031\">[1031]</a> as is there written,\r\nof the name of Hyperon.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1032\" id=\"FNanchor_1032\">[1032]</a> Further, Onomacritus the Athenian, who\r\nis said to have been the author of the poems ascribed to Orpheus, is\r\nascertained to have lived in the reign of the Pisistratidæ, about the\r\nfiftieth Olympiad. And Orpheus, who sailed with Hercules, was the\r\npupil of Musæus. Amphion precedes the Trojan war by two generations.\r\nAnd Demodocus and Phemius were posterior to the capture of Troy;\r\nfor they were famed for playing on the lyre, the former among the\r\nPhæacians, and the latter among the suitors. And the <i>Oracles</i>\r\nascribed to Musæus are said to be the production of Onomacritus, and\r\nthe <i>Crateres</i> of Orpheus the production of Zopyrus of Heraclea,\r\nand <i>The Descent to Hades</i> that of Prodicus of Samos. Ion of Chios\r\nrelates in the <i>Triagmi</i>,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1033\" id=\"FNanchor_1033\">[1033]</a> that Pythagoras ascribed certain\r\nworks [of his own] to Orpheus. Epigenes, in his book respecting <i>The\r\nPoetry attributed to Orpheus</i>, says that <i>The Descent to Hades</i>\r\nand the <i>Sacred Discourse</i> were the production of Cecrops the\r\nPythagorean; and the <i>Peplus</i> and the <i>Physics</i> of Brontinus.\r\nSome also make Terpander out ancient. Hellanicus, accordingly, relates\r\nthat he lived in the time of Midas: but Phanias, who places Lesches the\r\nLesbian<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_437\">[437]</span> before Terpander, makes Terpander younger than Archilochus,\r\nand relates that Lesches contended with Arctinus, and gained the\r\nvictory. Xanthus the Lydian says that he lived about the eighteenth\r\nOlympiad; as also Dionysius says that Thasus was built about the\r\nfifteenth Olympiad: so that it is clear that Archilochus<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1034\" id=\"FNanchor_1034\">[1034]</a> was\r\nalready known after the twentieth Olympiad. He accordingly relates the\r\ndestruction of Magnetes as having recently taken place. Simonides is\r\nassigned to the time of Archilochus. Callinus is not much older; for\r\nArchilochus refers to Magnetes as destroyed, while the latter refers to\r\nit as flourishing. Eumelus of Corinth being older, is said to have met\r\nArchias, who founded Syracuse.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XXI. THE JEWISH INSTITUTIONS AND LAWS OF FAR HIGHER ANTIQUITY THAN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GREEKS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1031","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-784"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a673ab1a1b50341bad11bffba208f1705d2a62dcb7783273db0bc59fa29a66cb","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_1031","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. 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