{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0555.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0555.tlg001.local001","title":"Protrepticus","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Clement of Alexandria","authorityName":"CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0555-clemens-alexandrinus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0555-clemens-alexandrinus/","editors":["Otto Stählin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Protrepticus und Paedagogus","edition":null,"publisher":"Hinrichs","place":"Leipzig","date":"1905","volume":"Volume 1","series":"Clemens Alexandrinus","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":[],"funders":[],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/clemensalexandri01clemuoft/page/2/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Clement Of Alexandria. Protrepticus. ed. Otto Stählin. Protrepticus und Paedagogus, Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1905. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0555.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Ἀμφίων ὁ Θηβαῖος καὶ Ἀρίων ὁ Μηθυμναῖος ἄμφω μὲν ἤστην ᾠδικώ (μῦθος δὲ ἄμφω· καὶ τὸ ᾆσμα εἰσέτι τοῦτο Ἑλλήνων ᾄδεται χορῷ), τέχνῃ τῇ μουσικῇ ὃ μὲν ἰχθὺν δελεάσας, ὃ δὲ Θήβας τειχίσας. Θρᾴκιος δὲ ἄλλος σοφιστὴς (ἄλλος οὗτος μῦθος Ἑλληνικός) ἐτιθάσευε τὰ θηρία γυμνῇ τῇ ᾠδῇ καὶ δὴ τὰ δένδρα, τὰς φηγούς, μετεφύτευε τῇ μουσικῇ. ἔχοιμ᾿ ἄν σοι καὶ ἄλλον τούτοις ἀδελφὸν διηγήσασθαι μῦθον καὶ ᾠδόν, Εὔνομον τὸν Λοκρὸν καὶ τέττιγα τὸν Πυθικόν. πανήγυρις Ἑλληνικὴ ἐπὶ νεκρῷ δράκοντι συνεκροτεῖτο Πυθοῖ, ἐπιτάφιον ἑρπετοῦ ᾄδοντος Εὐνόμου· ὕμνος ἢ θρῆνος ὄφεως ἦν ἡ ᾠδή, οὐκ ἔχω λέγειν· ἀγὼν δὲ ἦν καὶ ἐκιθάριζεν ὥρᾳ καύματος Εὔνομος, ὁπηνίκα οἱ τέττιγες ὑπὸ τοῖς πετάλοις ᾖδον ἀνὰ τὰ ὄρη θερόμενοι ἡλίῳ. ᾖδον δὲ ἄρα οὐ τῷ δράκοντι τῷ νεκρῷ, τῷ Πυθικῷ, ἀλλὰ τῷ θεῷ τῷ πανσόφῳ αὐτόνομον ᾠδήν, τῶν Εὐνόμου βελτίονα νόμων· ῥήγνυται χορδὴ τῷ Λοκρῷ· ἐφίπταται ὁ τέττιξ τῷ ζυγῷ· ἐτερέτιζεν ὡς ἐπὶ κλάδῳ τῷ ὀργάνῳ·…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/#tlg0555-tlg001-local001-12"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}