Epimenides

Family: Crete · Role: religious purifier · First appears: Solon

Life events

• Epimenides purified and sanctified Athens through religious rites and sacred buildings.(Solon · 📍 Athens)
  • “but the greatest benefit was his purifying and sanctifying the city, by certain propitiatory and expiatory lustrations, and foundation of sacred buildings;”

Solon

• with Solon (interaction) “When he came to Athens, and grew acquainted with Solon, he served him in many instances, and prepared the way for his legislation.”
• child: Balte “and son of a nymph named Balte.”
• friends with Solon “When he came to Athens, and grew acquainted with Solon, he served him in many instances, and prepared the way for his legislation”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.