Miscellanies 1.15.73

Some say, more mythically, that certain wise men of the so-called Idaean Dactyls were the first, to whom the invention of the so-called Ephesian letters and of musical rhythms is referred; for which reason dactyls among musicians have received their name. And the Idaean Dactyls were Phrygians and barbarians. Herodorus relates that Heracles, having become a seer and a natural philosopher, received the pillars of the world from Atlas the barbarian, the Phrygian, the myth hinting that he received the knowledge of heavenly things by learning. Hermippus of Berytus calls Chiron the Centaur wise; of him the author of the Titanomachy too says that he first “led the race of mortals to righteousness, showing oaths and cheerful sacrifices and the figures of Olympus.” Achilles, who fought against Ilium, was educated by him; and Hippo, the Centaur's daughter, who lived with Aeolus, taught him natural philosophy, her ancestral knowledge. Euripides too testifies about Hippo in some such way: “She first foretold divine things with clear oracles at the risings of the stars.” With this Aeolus Odysseus was entertained after the capture of Ilium. Note the dates for me, for comparison with the age of Moses and the most ancient philosophy of his time.