ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 179

OTTO KERN

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SUMMARY: This testimony lists three Orphic texts said to be written by Zopyrus of Heraclea: Clement of Alexandria says he wrote The Mixing Bowl (Κρατήρ); the Souda says he wrote both The Mixing Bowls (Κρατῆρες) and The Robe and the Net (Πέπλος καὶ Δίκτυον).

ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 179

Zopyrus of Heraclea (FHG IV 533; Ιαμβλίχου Χαλκιδέως περί βίου Πυθαγορικού λόγος 190, 5 N. [from Ἀριστόξενος]; Erwin Rohde Psyche II⁶ 106 n. 2; Hermann Diels Antike Technik² 23. 97, who justly denied that Zopyrus was from a generation younger that the 4^th century before Christ*):

Κρατήρ “The Mixing Bowl;” source: Clement of Alexandria;

Κρατῆρες “The Mixing Bowls;” source: the Souda (Σοῦδα);

Πέπλος καὶ Δίκτυον “The Robe and the Net;” source: the Souda.

v. Brotinus and nr. 189.

*Diels says that Zopyrus must have lived at the latest around the middle of the 4^th century B. C. E.

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