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PALAEPHATUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALAEPHATUS , the author of a small extant See also:

treatise, entitled llepi 'Airivrcov (On "Incredible Things "). It consists of a See also:series of rationalizing explanations of See also:Greek legends, without any See also:attempt at arrangement or See also:plan, and is probably an See also:epitome, composed in the See also:Byzantine See also:age, of some larger See also:work, perhaps the See also:Maas rwv lived wg eipt hvwv, mentioned by Suidas as the work of a grammarian of See also:Egypt or See also:Athens. Suidas himself ascribes a Ilea 'Aaiarcav, in five books, to Palaephatus of See also:Paros or See also:Priene. The author was perhaps a contemporary of See also:Euhemerus (3rd See also:century a.e.). Suidas mentions two other writers of the name: (r) an epic poet of Athens, who lived before the See also:time of See also:Homer; (2) an historian of Abydus, an intimate friend of See also:Aristotle. See edition by N. See also: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.

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