Anacharsis
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- VIAF24679016
- Name:
- Anacharsis
- Abbr:
- Anach.
- Alt names:
- Ἀνάχαρσις
Anacharsis, Epistolographus
Anacharsis, Scythicus
Anacharsis, Scythius
Anacarsis
Anakharsis, Skyytti
Anakharszisz
Anacarsi Scita
Anacharsis Scytha
Anacharsis, Pseudo-
Anakharsis
Anarcharsis, Epistolographus
Anach.
- Field of activity:
- Epistolary
Philosopher
- Notes:
- TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition,
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol , 1867, p. 1:
Brill's New Pauly: "Scythian of princely family, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th cent. BC. Herodotus (4,46
76-77) named him brother of the Scythian king
Saulinus and set his conduct apart from the brutality otherwise typical of his people....Instead of Myson he was often counted among the Seven Sages (Diog. Laert. 1,41
106
Diod. Sic. 9,6) and
in the course of the idealization of the peoples in the north especially praised by the Cynics as an unspoiled natural person. Nine of the 10 letters preserved under his name probably
date from the first half of the 3rd cent. BC and demonstrate a palpable similarity to Cynical philosophy...."
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