Author:Cebes

Cebes
(5th century BCE – 4th century BCE)

Works

• Hebdome (lost)
• Phrynichus (lost)
• Pinax (Πίναξ) or Tabula (likely spurious)
  • Translations:
    • The Table of Cebes (1531) by Francis Poyntz IA
    • The Table of Cebes the philosopher. How one maye take profite of his ennemies, translated oute of Plutarche. A treatyse perswadyng a man paciently to suffer the death of his freende (1560) by Thomas Elyot? IA
    • Epictetus his Manuall and Cebes his Table (1610) by John Healey IA
    • The Life and Philosophy of Epictetus, with the Embleme of Humane Life by Cebes (1670) by John Davies IA
    • The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. ... To which is added the Mythological Picture of Cebes the Theban (1702) by Jeremy Collier
    • The Porch and Academy opened, or Epictetus's Manual newly turn'd into English Verse, with Notes. By J. W. ... To which is added, Cebes's Table, never before translated into English Verse. By a Lady (1707) IA
    • Epictetus: a poem, containing the maxims of that celebrated philosopher, for the government of the passions in the conduct of life. ... To which is added, The Table of Cebes (1709) by George Stanhope IA
    • The Picture of Cebes, Disciple of Socrates, translated from the Greek and accompanied with Notes (1712?). Discovered among the manuscripts of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury and first published in Second Characters; or, The Language of Forms (1914) Edited by Benjamin Rand. IA
    • The table of Cebes, or, the picture of human life. In English verse. With notes (1754) By Thomas Scott IA
    • The Picture of Kebes the Theban, being a Translation of the only Extant Writing of Kebes, Disciple of Philolaus and Friend of Socrates (1906) by Hugh Exton Seebohm
    • The Characters of Theophrastos. The Mimes of Herodas. The Tablet of Kebes (1909) by Robert Thomson Clark
    • The Greek Pilgrim's progress. Generally known as the Picture, by Kebes (1910) by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
  • Greek text with English notes:
    • Cebetis Tabula with introduction and notes (1878) by Charles Stanger Jerram IA
    • Cebes' tablet, with introduction, notes, vocabulary, and grammatical questions (1904) by Richard Parsons IA

Works about Cebes

• "Cebes," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)