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EPIMENIDES , poet and prophet of Crete , lived in the 6th century B.C. Many fabulous stories are told of him, and even his existence is doubted. While tending his father's sheep, he is said to have fallen into a deep sleep in the Dictaean cave near Cnossus where he lived, from which he did not awake for fifty-seven years (Diogenes
olive
Plutarch , Solon, 12; Aristotle
Crete at an advanced age; according to his country-men, who afterwards honoured him as a god, he lived nearly three hundred years. According to another story, he was taken prisoner in a war between the Spartans and Cnossians, and put to death by his captors, because he refused to prophesy favourably for them. A collection of oracles, a theogony, an epic poem on the Argonautic expedition, prose
Melampus
Onomacritus
See C. Schultess, De Epimenide Cretensi (1877); O. Kern
Kern
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