{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0555.tlg004.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0555.tlg004.local001","title":"Στρώματα","titleGreek":"Στρώματα","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":"Clemens Alexandrinus Stromata","edition":null,"publisher":"Hinrichs","place":"Leipzig","date":"1906-1909","volume":"2-3","series":null,"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://books.google.com/books?id=TTYYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Clement Of Alexandria. Στρώματα. ed. Otto Stählin. Clemens Alexandrinus Stromata, Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1906-1909. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0555.tlg004.local001","excerpt":"ἵνα ὑπὸ χεῖρα ἀναγινώσκῃς αὐτὰς καὶ δυνηθῇς φυλάξαι αὐτάς. πότερον δ’ οὐδ’ ὅλως ἢ τισὶ καταλειπτέον συγγράμματα; καὶ εἰ μὲν τὸ πρότερον, τίς ἡ τῶν γραμμάτων χρεία; εἰ δὲ τὸ ἕτερον, ἤτοι τοῖς σπουδαίοις ἢ τοῖς μή; γελοῖον μεντἂν εἴη τὴν τῶν σπουδαίων ἀποδοκιμάζοντα γραφὴν τοὺς μὴ τοιούτους ἀποδέχεσθαι συντάττοντας. ἀλλ’ ἄρα θεοπόμπῳ μὲν καὶ Τιμαίῳ μύθους καὶ βλασφημίας συντάττουσιν, πρός δὲ καὶ Ἐπικούρῳ ἀθεότητος κατάρχοντι, ἔτι δὲ Ἱππώνακτι καὶ Ἀρχιλόχῳ αἰσχρῶς οὕτως ἐπιτρεπτέον γράφειν, τὸν δὲ τὴν ἀλήθειαν κηρύσσοντα κωλυτέον τοῖς ὕστερον ἀνθρώποις ὠφέλειαν ἀπολιπεῖν; καλὸν δ’ οἶμαι καὶ παῖδας ἀγαθοὺς τοῖς ἔπειτα καταλείπειν. οἱ μέν γε παῖδες σωμάτων, ψυχῆς δὲ ἔγγονοι οἱ λόγοι. αὐτίκα πατέρας τοὺς κατηχήσαντάς φαμεν, κοινωνικὸν δὲ ἡ σοφία καὶ φιλάνθρωπον. λέγει γοῦν ὁ Σολομών· υἱέ, ἐὰν δεξάμενος ῥῆσιν ἐντολῆς ἐμῆς κρύψῃς παρὰ σεαυτῷ, ὑπακούσεται σοφίας τὸ οὖς σου. σπειρόμενον τὸν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/#tlg0555-tlg004-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/#tlg0555-tlg004-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/#tlg0555-tlg004-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/#tlg0555-tlg004-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/#tlg0555-tlg004-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/#tlg0555-tlg004-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/#tlg0555-tlg004-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/#tlg0555-tlg004-local001-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0555.tlg004.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0555/tlg004/local001.json.gz"}}