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Encyclopedia Britannica



PHOCYLIDES

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 449 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PHOCYLIDES , Greek gnomic poet of
Miletus
 , contemporary of Theognis, was born about 56o B.C. A few fragments of his " maxims " have been preserved (chiefly in the Florilegium of Stobaeus), in which he expresses his contempt for the pomps and vanities of rank and wealth, and sets forth in simple language his ideas of honour,
justice
  and wisdom. A complete didactic poem (230 hexameters) called Iloir/a vovOernK6v or yvi;)ya1, bearing the name of Phocylides, is now considered to be the
work
  of an Alexandrian Christian of Jewish origin who lived between 170 B.C. and A.D. 50. The Jewish
element
  is shown in verbal agreement with passages of the Old Testament (especially the book of Sirach) ; the Christian by the
doctrine
  of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the
body
 . Some Jewish authorities, however, maintain that there are in reality no traces of Christan
doctrine
  to be found in the poem, and that the author was a Jew. The poem was first printed at Venice in 1495, and was a favourite school textbook during the Reformation period.
See fragments and the spurious poem in. T. Bergk, Poetae lyrici graeci, ii. (4th ed., 1882); J. Bernays Ober das Phokylideische Gedicht (1858); Phocylides, Poem of Admonition, with introduction and commentaries by J. B. Fenling, and
translation
  by H. D. Good-win (Andover,
Mass
 ., 1879); F. Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit, (1892), ii. 642; S. Krauss' (s.v. " Pseudo-Phocylides ") in The Jewish Encyclopedia and E.
Schurer
 , Hist. of the Jewish People, div. ii., vol. iii., 313316 (Eng. trans., 1886), where full bibliographies are given. There is an English verse
translation
  by W.
Hewett
  (Watford, 1840), The Perceptive Poem of Phocylides.


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