{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Of all these, by far the oldest is the Jewish race; and that their\r\nphilosophy committed to writing has the precedence of philosophy among\r\nthe Greeks, the Pythagorean Philo<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_945\" id=\"FNanchor_945\">[945]</a> shows at large; and, besides\r\nhim, Aristobulus the Peripatetic, and several others, not to waste\r\ntime, in going over them by name. Very clearly the author Megasthenes,\r\nthe contemporary of Seleucus Nicanor, writes as follows in the third of\r\nhis books, <i>On Indian Affairs</i>: “All that was said about nature by\r\nthe ancients is said also by those who philosophise beyond Greece: some\r\nthings by the Brahmins among the Indians, and others by those called\r\nJews in Syria.” Some more fabulously say that certain of those called\r\nthe Idæan<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_400\">[400]</span> Dactyli were the first wise men; to whom are attributed the\r\ninvention of what are called the “Ephesian letters,” and of numbers\r\nin music. For which reason dactyls in music received their name. And\r\nthe Idæan Dactyli were Phrygians and barbarians. Herodotus relates\r\nthat Hercules, having grown a sage and a student of physics, received\r\nfrom the barbarian Atlas, the Phrygian, the columns of the universe;\r\nthe fable meaning that he received by instruction the knowledge of the\r\nheavenly bodies. And Hermippus of Berytus calls Charon the Centaur\r\nwise; about whom, he that wrote <i>The Battle of the Titans</i> says,\r\n“that he first led the race of mortals to righteousness, by teaching\r\nthem the solemnity of the oath, and propitiatory sacrifices and the\r\nfigures of Olympus.” By him Achilles, who fought at Troy, was taught.\r\nAnd Hippo, the daughter of the Centaur, who dwelt with Æolus, taught\r\nhim her father’s science, the knowledge of physics. Euripides also\r\ntestifies of Hippo as follows:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XV. THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN GREAT PART DERIVED FROM THE BARBARIANS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_945","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-735"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f0da380339a8886a621c91318cc42b2cf4ebfc9fa18a6f38d073f03a7a7797b6","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_945","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. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_945","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_945\" id=\"Footnote_945\">[945]</a> Sozomen also calls Philo a Pythagorean.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_945","text_sha256":"0b2301ab28a58526dc75b439df887c345a03c104865b92e900c480d1fe5164ba","verified":false,"work_id":null}