Philochorus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Philochorus the Athenian
in the texts
Stromata
Philochorus, Athenian historian, cited for dating Homer's birth and for a claim about Orpheus's prophetic status.
And already Philochorus relates that Orpheus too became a seer, in the first book of his work On Divination.
From the Trojan matters to the birth of Homer is, according to Philochorus, a hundred and eighty years, after the Ionian colony.
De Anima
Athenian writer cited, with Epicharmus, as elevating dreams among the kinds of divination.
For the rest, Epicharmus, with Philochorus the Athenian, even raised dreams to the highest summit among the kinds of divination.