Cronius the Pythagorean
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Cronius (Greek: Κρόνιος) was a celebrated Neo-Pythagorean philosopher.[1] Nemesius[2] mentions a work of his On Reincarnation, (Greek: περὶ παλιγγενεσίας), and Origen is said to have diligently studied the works of Cronius.[3] Porphyry also states, that he endeavoured to explain the fables of the Homeric poems in a philosophical manner. This is all we know about Cronius, although he appears to have been very distinguished among the Neo-Pythagoreans.
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- ^ Porphyry, Vita Plotini, 20; Eusebius, Church History vi. 19.
- ^ Nemesius, de Anima, 2.
- ^ Suda, Origenes.
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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
