Anonymi Paradoxographi De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana) 1

ed. Nicola Festa

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[1] Ἰστέον ὅτι ἀρχαιοτάτους ἀνθρώπων οἱ μὲν Αἰγυπτίους, οἱ δὲ Φρύγας φασίν, Ἑλλήνων δὲ ἀρχαιοτάτους Ἀθηναίους καὶ τοὺς πρὶν Πελασγούς, νῦν δὲ Ἀρκάδας, ἐν δὲ πόλεσι τήν τε Ἀθηναίων ἀκρόπολιν ὑπὸ Κέκροπος τοῦ αὐτόχθονος κτισθεῖσαν τοῦ διφυοῦς καὶ δευτέραν τὴν ὑπὸ Φορωνέως τοῦ Ἰνάχου [κτισθεῖσαν], τρίτην δὲ ‹τὴν› Ἴτωνος ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ ὑπὸ Δευκαλίωνος τοῦ Προμηθέως.

De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana). Anonymi Paradoxographi. ed. Nicola Festa. Leipzig. 1902.

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Peri Apiston (Greek) (Anonymi Paradoxographi. Mythographi Graeci. Vol. 3, fasc. 2.Festa, Nicola, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1902.)

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Excerpta Vaticana First1KGreek (Anonymi Paradoxographi. Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, Hawes, Greta, author and translator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) — 1 focus

[1] One should know that some say that the Egyptians were the earliest people; others say the Phrygians, but that, of the Greeks, the oldest were the Athenians and the Pelasgians, who are now called Arcadians. Of the cities, they say that the Athenian Acropolis was founded by Cecrops, the dual-formed, autochthonous hero. The second oldest was the city founded by Phoroneus, son of Inachus, and third was Itonus in Thessaly, founded by Deucalion, son of Prometheus.

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