Epigenes
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Epiganes
in the texts
Stromata
Epigenes, author of On the Poetry Ascribed to Orpheus, cited as the source reassigning several Orphic works to other named authors.
And Epigenes, in his work On the Poetry Ascribed to Orpheus, says that the Descent into Hades and the Sacred Discourse are by Cercops the Pythagorean, and the Peplos and the Physica by Brontinus.
And again — does not Epigenes, in his work On the Poetry of Orpheus, setting forth the peculiar usages in Orpheus, say that "crook-fashioned shuttles" signify ploughs, and "warp-threads" the furrows;
Against Stephanus I
Father of Endius, named in the deposition.
Stephanus, son of Menecles, of Acharnae, Endius, son of Epigenes, of Lamptrae, Scythes, son of Harmateus, of Cydathenaeum depose that they were present before the arbitrator Teisias, of Acharnae, when Phormio challenged Apollodorus, if he declared that the document which Phormio put into the box was not a copy of the will of Pasio, to open the will of Pasio, which Amphias, brother-in-law of Cephis …
Apology
Associate of Socrates whose father is present
and also Antiphon of Cephisus, father of Epigenes.
Phaedo
An Athenian present at Socrates' death.
Of native Athenians there was this Apollodorus, and Critobulus and his father, and Hermogenes and Epiganes and Aeschines and Antisthenes;
Memorabilia
Socratic companion whose poor physical condition prompts a lesson on exercise and military readiness.
Well, he replied, I’m not an athlete, Socrates.
Many, again, by their bodily weakness earn infamy, being thought cowards.
On noticing that Epigenes, one of his companions, was in poor condition, for a young man, he said: