Just as God gave revealed truth to the Hebrew patriarchs and to Moses, so also he gave secret truths to the founders of the other great religious traditions of antiquity: the treatises attributed to the prisci theologi.
The last great Platonist and Euclidean commentator of antiquity, Proclus (c. 410 485 ce), attributed to the inexhaustible Thales the discovery of the far-from-obvious proposition that even apparently obvious propositions need proof.
Its flavor is described as strong, complex and capable of all sorts of gastronomic feats and medicinal benefits that have been attributed to garlic since antiquity.
The second volume contains The Shield and extant fragments of other poems, including the Catalogue of Women, that were attributed to Hesiod in antiquity.
The corpus was attributed to Hippocrates in antiquity, and its teaching generally followed his principles; thus it came to be known by his name.
Sophocles referred to the narcissus as the 'Chaplet of the infernal Gods', a statement frequently wrongly attributed to Socrates (see Antiquity).
The Catalogue of Women (, Gynaikôn Katálogos)—also known as the Ehoiai —is a fragmentary Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity.
The Hippocratic Oath, a seminal document on the ethics of medical practice, was attributed to Hippocrates in antiquity although new information shows it may have been written after his death.
Paradoxes of this kind have been known since antiquity (for instance, the standard Liar is attributed to the Greek philosopher Eubulides, probably the greatest paradox-producer of antiquity).
A few authors in antiquity refer to a work with this name and attribute it to Aristotle, but it is not mentioned by several authorities, such as Cicero and Diogenes Laertius, whom we would expect to have known of it.
