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CADMUS OF MILETUS

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 931 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
CADMUS OF MILETUS , according to some ancient authorities the oldest of the logographi (q.v.). Modern scholars, who accept this view, assign him to about 550 B.C.; others regard him as purely mythical. A confused notice in Suidas mentions three persons of the name: the first, the inventor of the
alphabet
 ; the second, the son of Pandion, " according to some " the first
prose
  writer, a little later than Orpheus, author of a history of the Foundation of
Miletus
  and of
Ionia
  generally, in four books; the third, the son of Archelaus, of later date, author of a history of Attica in fourteen books, and of some poems of an erotic character. As
Dionysius
  of
Halicarnassus
  (Judicium de Thucydide, c. 23) distinctly states that the
work
  current in his time under the name of Cadmus was a forgery, it is most probable that the two first are identical with the Phoenician Cadmus, who, as the reputed inventor of letters, was subsequently trans-formed into the Milesian and the author of an historical
work
 . In this connexion it should be observed that the old Milesian nobles traced their descent back to the Phoenician or one of his companions. The text of the notice of the third Cadmus of
Miletus
  in Suidas is unsatisfactory; and it is uncertain whether he is to be explained in the same way, or whether he was an historical personage, of whom all further
record
  is lost.
See C. W. Muller, Frag. Hist. Graec. ii. 2-4; and 0. Crusius in Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie (article " Kadmos," 90, 91).


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