Editing Phemonoe

In [[Greek mythology]], '''Phemonoe''' ( {{IPAc-en||f|i|ˈ|m|ɒ|n|oʊ|.|i|}};<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gardner|first1=Dorsey|title=Webster's Condensed Dictionary|date=1887|publisher=George Routledge and Sons|page=759|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aU0yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA759|accessdate=14 April 2018}}</ref> {{langx|grc|Φημονόη}}) was a Greek poet of the ante-Homeric period. She was said to have been the daughter of [[Apollo]], his first [[priest]]ess at [[Delphi]],<ref>[http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Delphi.html Greek Mythology Link (Carlos Parada) - Delphi (Accessed 2007-12-13)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207200953/http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Delphi.html |date=2007-12-07 }}.</ref> or of his possible son [[Delphus]], and the inventor of the [[hexameter]] verses, a type of [[poetry|poetic]] [[metre (poetry)|metre]].<ref>Pausanias 10.5.7, 10.6.7; Strabo, 9 p. 419; Pliny the Elder, H. N. 7.57; Clement of Alexandria, ''[[Stromata]]'' i. pp. 323, 334; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 1094; Eustathius Prol. ad Iliad.; and other authors cited by Fabricius.</ref>

== Mythology ==
In some studies, the phrase "[[know thyself]]" ([[γνῶθι σεαυτόν]]), found inscribed at the entrance to the [[Temple of Apollo (Delphi)|Temple of Apollo]] at Delphi, has been attributed to her. Some writers seem to have placed her at [[Delos]] instead of Delphi;<ref>Atil. Fort. p. 2690, Putsch.</ref> and [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] identifies her with the [[Cumaean Sibyl]].<ref>Virgil. ''Aeneid'', iii. 445.</ref> The tradition which ascribed to her the invention of the hexameter, was by no means uniform; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], for example, as quoted above, calls her the first who used it, but in another passage<ref>Pausanias, 10.12.10.</ref> he quotes an hexameter [[distich]], which was ascribed to the [[Peleiades]], who lived before Phemonoe: the traditions respecting the invention of the hexameter are collected by Fabricius.<ref>[[Johann Albert Fabricius|Fabricius, Johann Albert]],  Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 207.</ref> There were poems which went under the name of Phemonoe, like the old religious poems which were ascribed to [[Orpheus]], [[Musaeus of Athens|Musaeus]], and the other mythological [[bards]]. [[Melampus]], for example, quotes from her in his book ''[[Melampus#Melampus.27 alleged writings|Peri Palmon Mantike]]'' ("On Twitches") §17, §18;<ref>Fabricius. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 116.</ref> and [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] quotes from her respecting eagles and hawks, evidently from some book of [[augury]], and perhaps from a work which is still extant in MS., entitled ''Orneosophium''.<ref>Pliny. H. N. x. 3, 8. s. 9; Fabricius. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 210, 211; Olearii, Dissert. de Poetriis Graecis, Hamb. 1734, 4to.</ref> There is an [[epigram]] of [[Antipater of Thessalonica]], alluding to a statue of Phemonoe, dressed in a [[pharos (clothes)|pharos]].<ref>Brunck, Anal. vol. ii, p. 114, No. 22; Anthol. Pal. vi. 208.</ref>

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== References ==
*Darius Del Corno. ''Graecorum de re Onirocritica Scriptorum Reliquiae''. No. 26, 1969.
*[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|The Natural History]].'' John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia.'' Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0138 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*[[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]], ''[[Aeneid]].'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica|The Geography of Strabo]].'' Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Strabo, ''Geographica'' edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]

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