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CADMUS OF MILETUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 931 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CADMUS OF See also:MILETUS , according to some See also:ancient authorities the See also:oldest of the See also:logographi (q.v.). See also:Modern scholars, who accept this view, assign him to about 550 B.C.; others regard him as purely mythical. A confused See also:notice in Suidas mentions three persons of the name: the first, the inventor of the See also:alphabet; the second, the son of Pandion, " according to some " the first See also:prose writer, a little later than See also:Orpheus, author of a See also:history of the See also:Foundation of Miletus and of See also:Ionia generally, in four books; the third, the son of See also:Archelaus, of later date, author of a history of See also:Attica in fourteen books, and of some poems of an erotic See also:character. As See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus (Judicium de Thucydide, c. 23) distinctly states that the See also:work current in his See also:time under the name of Cadmus was a See also:forgery, it is most probable that the two first are identical with the Phoenician Cadmus, who, as the reputed inventor of letters, was subsequently trans-formed into the Milesian and the author of an See also:historical work. In this connexion it should be observed that the old Milesian nobles traced their descent back to the Phoenician or one of his companions. The See also:text of the notice of the third Cadmus of Miletus in Suidas is unsatisfactory; and it is uncertain whether he is to be explained in the same way, or whether he was an historical personage, of whom all further See also:record is lost. See C. W. See also:Muller, Frag. Hist. Graec. ii.

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Crusius in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie (See also:article " Kadmos," 90, 91).

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