Epimenides
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Epimenides of Crete was a semi-mythical 7th- or 6th-century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet, from Knossos or Phaistos.
Epimenides of Knossos
Epimenides from "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum"
Alcmaeonidae
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The Alcmaeonidae or Alcmaeonids were a wealthy and powerful noble family of ancient Athens, a branch of the Neleides who claimed descent from the mythological Alcmaeon, the great-grandson of Nestor.
Epimenides
…mentioned by Saint Paul in his speech on that hill (Acts 17). Plutarch writes that Epimenides purified Athens after the pollution brought by the Alcmeonidae, and that the seer's expertise in sacrifices and reform of funeral practices were of great help to Solon in his reform of the Athenian state. The only…
Bust of Pericles in the British Museum, Roman copy of a lost Greek original. One of the most famous Alcmaeonidae, Pericles was an Athenian general, orator, and statesman.
Modern bust of Cleisthenes in the Ohio Statehouse. Another prominent Alcmaeonid, Cleisthenes is credited as being "the father of Athenian democracy."
View of the Acropolis of Athens from Philopappos Hill