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Pseudo-Phocylides (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Pseudo-Phocylides
Used for/see from:
  • Pseudo-Phokylides

His The sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides, 1979: t.p.

Encyc. Judaica (Pseudo-Phocylides; a Hellenistic Jewish didactic poet, author of 230 hexameters falsely ascribed to the sixth century B.C. Greek lyric poet Phocylides)

Thomas, J. Der jüdische Phokylides, 1992: t.p. (Pseudo-Phokylides)

Brill's new Pauly online, 8 June 2015 (Pseudo-Phcylides; Hellenistic-Jewish author of a didactic poem written between 100 BC and AD 100, possibly in Alexandria; ascribed to the Milesian Phocylides who lived in the 6th or 7th century BC; combines borrowing from the Septuagint with hellenistic popular ethics; does not contain any Christian or New Testament subjects; used as a textbook during the Byzantine era; verses 5-79 are handed down in the Sibylline oracles (2,56-148)

Horst, P. The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides: p. 4 (in 1606 Joseph Scaliger questioned whether the poem Sentences was actually written by Phocylides because it lacked the attribution kai tode Phōkylideō [romanized], was similar to Biblical verses, and was never referenced in antiquity making the author probably a Jew or a Christian)

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