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Headword:
Kadmos
Adler number: kappa,22
Translated headword: Kadmos, Cadmus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Pandion, from Miletus, historian, who first (according to some) wrote a book in prose. [He was] a little younger than Orpheus.[1] He composed the
Founding of Miletus and of all Ionia in 4 books.
They say Cadmus was the first to bring to Greece the alphabet, which the Phoenicians first invented.[2]
Kadmos, Pandionos, Milêsios, historikos, hos prôtos kata tinas sungraphên egrapse katalogadên, mikrôi neôteros Orpheôs. sunetaxe de ktisin Milêtou kai tês holês Iônias en bibliois d#. hoti ton Kadmon phasi prôton es tên Hellada komisai ta grammata, haper prôtoi Phoinikes epheuron.
Notes:
6/5 BC; FGrH 489; cf.
kappa 21.
[1] It is unclear which figure of this name is meant. See
omicron 654 -
omicron 660.
[2] George the Monk,
Chronicon 75.16-18; cf.
gamma 416. Also,
Herodotus 5.58 (web address 1) credits Cadmus for having brought the alphabet to the Greeks.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; mythology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 February 2002@12:05:33.
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