Cadmus of Miletus
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Cadmus of Miletus
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Cadmus of Miletus was according to some ancient authorities, the oldest of the logographi. Scholars who accept this view, assign him to about 550 BC; others regard him as purely mythical. A confused notice in the Suda mentions three persons of the name: the first, the inventor of the alphabet; the second, the son of Pandion, according to some the first prose writer, a little later than Orpheus, author of a history of the foundation of Miletus and of Ionia generally, in four books; the third, the
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Oldest of the logographi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmus_of_Miletus
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2022-02-20T01:41:59Z
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