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grbs-7391	Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew	Legends of the Greek Lawgivers	1978	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5053	324	70	Plutarch comments that while such stories might be true, there is another explanation worth taking seriously, namely that these lawgivers only pretended to have divine guidance in order to gain acceptance for their decrees.31 Posidonius adopts a more conciliatory tone, observing that these things, whatever truth there may be in them, have at least been believed and sanctioned among men. During his sojourn in Crete Lycurgus allegedly met with Thaletas.15 Solon had contact with Thales of Miletus, with the famous barbarian savant Anacharsis and with Epimenides of Crete.16 Zaleucus and Charondas are both represented as pupils of Pythagoras, with a further variation to the effect that 11	cache/grbs-7391.pdf	txt/grbs-7391.txt