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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS |
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PALAEPHATUS , the author of a small extant treatise, entitled llepi 'Airivrcov (On "Incredible Things "). It consists of a series of rationalizing explanations of Greek legends, without any attempt at arrangement or plan, and is probably an epitome, composed in the Byzantine
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century a.e.). Suidas mentions two other writers of the name: (r) an epic poet of Athens, who lived before the time ofHomer ; (2) an historian of Abydus, an intimate friend of Aristotle
See edition by N. Festa, in Mythographi graeci (1902), in the Teubner series , with valuable prolegomena supplementary to Intorno all' opuscolo di Palefato de incredibilibus (1890), by the same writer.End of Article: PALAEPHATUS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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