Asclepiades Mendes
Asclepiades (Ancient Greek: Ἀσκληπιάδης) was a writer of ancient Egypt who possessed, according to the Suda, a profound knowledge of Ancient Egyptian religion, and wrote hymns on his native gods.[1]
He also composed a work upon the agreement among the different religions, Synthesis of All Theologies (τῶν θεολογιῶν ἁπασῶν ἡ συμφωνία), a second on the history of Egypt, and a third on Ogyges.[2] Of the history of Egypt the sixtieth book is quoted by Athenaeus.[3]
Many scholars believe that this Asclepiades is the same as the one whom Suetonius calls the author of Theologizing (Θεολογούμενα) and of whom he quotes a fragment.[4][5] This work moreover seems to be the same work as that on the agreement among the different religions. Suetonius calls him Asclepiades Mendes which seems to be a toponymic surname derived from the name of a town in Egypt.[6][7][8]
References[edit]
- ^ Suda, s.v. Ἡράϊσκος
- ^ Mead, G.R.S. (1895). Besant, Annie; Mead, G.R.S. (eds.). "Orpheus". Lucifer. 16: 285. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae iii p. 83
- ^ Suetonius, Augustus 94
- ^ Gudeman, Alfred (1902). "The Sources of Plutarch's Life of Cicero". Publications of the University of Pennsylvania Series in Philology and Literature. 8 (2): 59. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ Scholiast on Homer's Iliad vii. p 147
- ^ Isaac Casaubon, Commentaries on Suetonius
- ^ Gerardus Vossius, De Historicis Graecis p 406
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Asclepiades (7)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 381.