ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 232

OTTO KERN

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SUMMARY: This testimony, from the Souda, the Byzantine lexicon, says that Apollonius of Aphrodisias wrote a text called On Orpheus and his Mysteries.

ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 232

Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς, about the third century before the Common Era. Σοῦδα:

Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀφροδισιεύς ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ ἱστορικὸς γέγραφε Καρικά, Περὶ Τράλλεων, Περί Ὀρφέως καὶ τῶν τελετῶν αὐτού.

“Apollóhnios (Ἀπολλώνιος) of Aphrodisiás (Ἀφροδισιάς), the high priest and historian who wrote On the Carians, On Trálleis (Τράλλεις = modern Aydin), and On Orphéfs (Ὀρφεύς) and his Mysteries.”

(trans. by the author)

Σοῦδα s. v. (Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker [FHG] IV 310). Eduard Schwartz Real-encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE)² II 135 n. 73.

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