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Headword: Κάδμος
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]
Greek Original:
Κάδμος, Πανδίονος, Μιλήσιος, ἱστορικός, ὃς πρῶτος κατά τινας συγγραφὴν ἔγραψε καταλογάδην, μικρῷ νεώτερος Ὀρφέως. συνέταξε δὲ κτίσιν Μιλήτου καὶ τῆς ὅλης Ἰωνίας ἐν βιβλίοις δ#. ὅτι τὸν Κάδμον φασὶ πρῶτον ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα κομίσαι τὰ γράμματα, ἅπερ πρῶτοι Φοίνικες ἐφεῦρον.
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.
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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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 13 February 2002@03:05:50.
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