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ID: 901000324
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000324
Record Type: Character/Person

Seven Wise Men of Greece (Greek legendary characters)

Note: Greek legendary wise men, whose name "Sophoi" derives from a term that then designated inventiveness and practical wisdom rather than speculative insight. By tradition, their names are Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander (alternatively Myson), Pittacus, Solon, and Thales.

Names:
Seven Wise Men of Greece (Greek legendary characters) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
Seven Sages of Greece (Greek legendary characters) (English,U,N)
Sophoi (Greek legendary characters) (English)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Greek iconography> (P)
........<Greek characters> (G)
............Seven Wise Men of Greece (Greek legendary characters) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... characters (people by activity)
.....(people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Ancient Greek (culture or style)
.....(Aegean periods, Aegean, Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
deity of .... inventiveness
.....(philosophical concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Seven Wise Men of Greece (Greek legendary characters)
................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/434009
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Seven Sages of Greece (Greek legendary characters)
................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)
Sophoi (Greek legendary characters)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) in "Monistic consmologies," accessed 12 July 2017
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-) 98B(SEVEN SAGES)
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Monistic consmologies," accessed 12 July 2017

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