Editing Wisdom (section)

===== Apollo =====
{{Main|Apollo}}

Apollo was also considered a god of wisdom, designated as the conductor of the [[Muses]] (''Musagetes''),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Mousai.html|title=MOUSAI – Greek Goddesses of Music, Poetry & the Arts|website=Theoi Project|access-date=17 August 2019}}</ref> who were personifications of the sciences and of the inspired and poetic arts. According to [[Plato]] in his ''[[Cratylus (dialogue)|Cratylus]]'', the name of Apollo could also mean "{{transliteration|grc|ballon}}" (archer) and "{{transliteration|grc|omopoulon}}" (unifier of poles [divine and earthly]), since this god was responsible for divine and true inspirations, thus considered an archer who was always right in healing and oracles: "he is an ever-darting archer".<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Plato]]|title=[[Cratylus (dialogue)|Cratylus]]|at=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0172%3Atext%3DCrat.%3Apage%3D406 405e–406a]}}</ref> Apollo prophesied through the priestesses ([[Pythia]]) in the [[Temple of Apollo (Delphi)]], where the aphorism "[[know thyself]]" ({{transliteration|grc|gnōthi seauton}}){{Efn|1=[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0176:text%3DCharm.:section%3D165a Critias states the meaning of "know thyself" in Plato's ''Charmides'' (165a)] |name=|group=}} was inscribed (one of the [[Delphic maxims]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Michael|title=Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World|publisher=Princeton University Press}}</ref> He was contrasted with [[Hermes]], who was related to the sciences and technical wisdom, and, in the first centuries after Christ, was associated with [[Thoth]] in an [[Ancient Egyptian religion|Egyptian syncretism]], under the name [[Hermes Trismegistus|Hermes Trimegistus]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Preus|first=Anthony|date=30 March 1998|title=Thoth and Apollo. Greek Myths of the Origin of Philosophy|journal=Méthexis|volume=11|issue=1|pages=113–125|doi=10.1163/24680974-90000303|issn=0327-0289}}</ref> Greek tradition recorded the earliest introducers of wisdom in the [[Seven Sages of Greece]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Alan H.|last=Griffiths|chapter=Seven Sages|title=Oxford Classical Dictionary|date=29 January 2024 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordclassicald0000unse_w0c8|url-access=registration|editor-first1=Simon|editor-last1=Hornblower|editor-first2=Antony|editor-last2=Spawforth|editor-first3=Esther|editor-last3=Eidinow|edition=4th|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordclassicald0000unse_w0c8/page/1357/mode/1up 1357]}}</ref>