Cercops
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Cercops (Template:Langx) was a poet to whom Orphic writings were attributed. He was called a Pythagorean by Clement of Alexandria[1] who also states that Epigenes of Alexandria said that he was the author of an Orphic epic poem entitled the "Descent to Hades" and Script error: No such module "Lang". (English "Holy Discourse"), which seem to have been extant in the Alexandrian period. Others attribute the latter work to Prodicus of Samos,[citation needed] or Herodicus of Perinthus,[citation needed] or Orpheus of Camarina.[2] According to Cicero,[3] the Pythagoreans ascribe the Orphic poem to a certain Cercops. According to Aristotle, Cercops could not have been a Pythagorean, as the poet was a contemporary of Hesiod.[4]
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- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, I.
- ^ Suda, Orpheus; Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Suda". Suda On-line. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
- ^ Cicero De Natura Deorum I. 38
- ^ Burkert, 114, 130 n. 60; cf DK I, 106.6f
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leonid Zhmud (2012). Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Translated by Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland. Oxford University Press. pp. 116, 120, 223, 393. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199289318.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-928931-8.
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