Thales

Family: Gortynian · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 14

Life events

• Thales stopped the plague at Lacedæmon.(Book 1 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Lacedæmon)
  • “Thales, who stopped the plague at Lacedæmon”

Book 1 · Chapter 14

• with Epimenides (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”
• with Polymnastus (Polymnastus wrote a poem about Thales.) “Thales is declared to have been a Gortynian by the Colyphonian Polymnastus, who wrote a poem on him for the Lacedæmonians”

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