Proclus, Chrestomathy 1

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Ἑλλάνικος fr. 5 Fowler. δὲ καὶ Δαμάστης fr. 11b Fowler. καὶ Φερεκύδης fr. 167 Fowler. εἰς Ὀρφέα τὸ γένος ἀνάγουσιν αὐτοῦ (Ὁμήρου)· Μαίονα γάρ φασι τὸν Ὁμήρου πατέρα καὶ Δῖον τὸν Ἡσιόδου γενέσθαι Ἀπέλλιδος τοῦ Μελανώπου τοῦ Ἐπιφράδεος τοῦ Χαριφήμου τοῦ Φιλοτέρπεος τοῦ Ἰδμονίδα τοῦ Εὐκλέους τοῦ Δωρίωνος τοῦ Ὀρφέως.

Hellanicus, Damastes and Pherecydes trace Homer’s ancestry back to Orpheus. For they say that Maeon, the father of Homer, and Dius, the father of Hesiod, were born of Apelles, the son of Melanopus, the son of Epiphrades, the son of Chariphemus, the son of Philoterpes, the son of Idmonides, the son of Eukles, the son of Dorion, the son of Orpheus.

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