Epimenides the Cretan
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Epimenides
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Stromata
Cretan seer, called 'their own prophet' by Paul when quoted in the Epistle to Titus.
As for the seventh, some say he was Periander the Corinthian, some Anacharsis the Scythian, and some Epimenides the Cretan — whom the Apostle Paul mentions in the Epistle to Titus, saying thus:
And Pythagoras the great too always attended to foreknowledge, and Abaris the Hyperborean and Aristeas of Proconnesus and Epimenides the Cretan, who came to Sparta, and Zoroaster the Mede and Empedocles of Acragas and Phormion the Laconian, indeed Polyaratus the Thasian and Empedotimus the Syracusan, and besides these, especially, Socrates the Athenian.
just as the sacrifices of Epimenides the Cretan put off for them the Persian war for the same length of time.
Constitution of the Athenians
Cretan figure who purified Athens after the affair of the curse.
And Epimenides the Cretan, after these events, purified the city.
Protrepticus
Figure said to have set up Athenian altars to Insolence and Shamelessness.
Some philosophers too, after the poets, make idols of the types of the passions within you — Fear and Love and Joy and Hope — just as Epimenides of old set up at Athens altars to Insolence and Shamelessness;
De Anima
Legendary figure said to have slept for nearly fifty years.
It had been a case of somewhat heavier slumber, as is the presumption about the nightmare-spirit, or about that lapse of health which Soranus opposes, excluding the nightmare, or some such defect as drove even Epimenides into a fable, drowsy for nearly fifty years.