Bias of Priene

Role: wise man · First appears: Book 10 · Chapter 24

Life events

• The Seven Wise Men offered sayings to Apollo and inscribed them in the temple vestibule.(Book 10 · Chapter 24 · 📍 Delphi)
  • With: Thales of Miletus Pittacus of Mitylene Cleobulus of Lindus Solon of Athens Chilo of Sparta Myson of Chenæ Apollo
  • “These Seven Wise Men came to Delphi, and offered to Apollo those famous sayings, Know thyself and Not too much of anything. And they inscribed those sayings in the vestibule of the temple.”

Book 10 · Chapter 24

• with Apollo (Bias of Priene is one of the Seven Wise Men.) “These Seven Wise Men came to Delphi, and offered to Apollo those famous sayings, Know thyself and Not too much of anything.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.