{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0555.tlg001.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0555.tlg001.local002","title":"Προτρεπτικὸς πρὸς Ἕλληνας","titleGreek":"Προτρεπτικὸς πρὸς Ἕλληνας","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":["G.W. Butterworth"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Clement of Alexandria","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1919","volume":null,"series":"Loeb Classical Library","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":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/theexhortationto00clemuoft/page/2/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Clement Of Alexandria. Προτρεπτικὸς πρὸς Ἕλληνας. ed. G.W. Butterworth. Clement of Alexandria, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1919. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0555.tlg001.local002","excerpt":"Ἀμφίων ὁ Θηβαῖος καὶ Ἀρίων ὁ Μηθυμναῖος ἄμφω μὲν ἤστην ᾠδικώ, μῦθος δὲ ἄμφω· καὶ τὸ ᾆσμα εἰσέτι τοῦτο Ἑλλήνων ᾅδεται χορῷ, τέχνῃ τῇ μουσικῇ ὁ μὲν ἰχθὺν δελεάσας, ὁ δὲ Θήβας τειχίσας. Θρᾴκιος δὲ ἄλλος σοφιστὴς ʽἄλλος οὗτος μῦθος Ἑλληνικόσ̓ 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 ᾅδοντος 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.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/#tlg0555-tlg001-local002-12"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0555.tlg001.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555/tlg001/local002.json.gz"}}