Philosopher

Epimenides

Overview

Epimenides of Crete (; Ancient Greek: Ἐπιμενίδης) was a semi-mythical 7th- or 6th-century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet, from Knossos or Phaistos.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Epimenides

• Hesiod
• Xenophanes
• Pythagoras
• Parmenides
• Pherecydes of Syros

Ideas Epimenides discusses

• Athens
• Philosophy
• Athenaeus
• Liar paradox
• New Testament
• Poetry
• Pythagoras
• Greek mythology
• Plutarch
• Religion
• Shamanism
• Self-reference
• Theogony
• Aristotle
• Zeus
• Sparta
• Greeks
• Cosmogony
• Solon
• Syriac language
• Crete
• Central Asia
• Clement of Alexandria
• Diogenes Laertius

Place in the tradition

Part of Parmenides.

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