Epimenides
Family: Gnossian · Role: poet · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 14
Life events
- Epimenides slept in a cave for forty years before awakening.(Book 1 · Chapter 14)
- “entered into a cave and slept there, and woke not from that sleep till forty years had rolled by”
- Epimenides was killed after failing to prophesy auspiciously for the Lacedæmonians.(Book 2 · Chapter 21)
- “for the Lacedæmonians when they fought against the Gnossians took Epimenides alive, but killed him afterwards because he did not prophesy auspiciously for them”
Book 1 · Chapter 14
- with Thales (The text explicitly denies a familial relationship between them.) “Thales, who stopped the plague at Lacedæmon, was no relation of his, nor of the same city as Epimenides”
Book 8 · Chapter 18
- with Styx (interaction) “Epimenides the Cretan also has represented Styx as the daughter of Oceanus, but not as the wife of Pallas, but of Piras, whoever he was, to whom she bare Echidna.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.