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Epimenides

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Epimenides (lived 6th century BC)

Cretan poet and prophet, born at Phaestus. Although his life story includes a wealth of legend, he is known to have visited Athens at the invitation of Solon in about 596 BC in order to purify the city after a pestilence said to have been caused by the murder of Cylon. Epimenides is believed to be the ‘prophet’ alluded to by St Paul in his New Testament letter to Titus.



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Paul tried to build bridges with the pagan Greeks in Athens when he quoted from the poets Epimenides and Aratus of Soli in speaking of "the God in which we live and move and have our being.
The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit by Shea, John B. / Catholic Insight
It seems like we're dealing with another form of the Cretan Paradox--in which Epimenides tells you, "All Cretans are liars"; if he's telling the truth he's lying, and if he's lying he's telling the truth.
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Athens, where Epimenides, Pisistratus and Solon discuss the policy of Athens (i.
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