Myson of Chen is known as one of the Seven Sages of Greece. He was "a husbandman of the Laconian town of Etia, and resided at a place called Chen in the same country".(1) The Seven Sages of Greece (c. ...
There is some confusion if he was a true Spartan: "there is a story in Plutarch, (Quaest. Rom. 84), of Myson making in winter a fork for tossing the corn, and, when Chilon wondered at it, of his justifying himself by an apposite answer; where Myson is opposed, as a Perioecian farmer, to the noble Spartan"(2) This article needs cleanup. ...
Reference
The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Karl Otfried Müller, trans from the German by Henry Tufnell and George Lewis, 2nd Edition, revised, publisher: John Murray, 1839. Vol II, pg 26. Public Domain.
See also: Plato Protagoras; Diod. de Virt. et Vit. p. 551. Paus. X 24.1. Clem. Alex. Strom. I. p. 299. Sylf. Steph. Byz. in χην and ητια.
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84), of Myson making in winter a fork for tossing the corn, and, when Chilon wondered at it, of his justifying himself by an apposite answer; where Myson is opposed, as a Perioecian farmer, to the noble Spartan"(2)
The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Karl Otfried Müller, trans from the German by Henry Tufnell and George Lewis, 2nd Edition, revised, publisher: John Murray, 1839.
"Myson was the son of Strymon, according to Sosicrates, who quotes Hermippus as his authority, and a native of Chen, a village in the district of Oeta or Laconia; and he is reckoned one of the Seven Sages.
Myson of Chen in Oeta; this is he / Who for wiseheartedness surpasseth thee.
His curiosity aroused, Anacharsis went to the village in summer time and found him fitting a share to a plough and said, 'Myson, this is not the season for the plough.' 'It is just the time to repair it,' was the reply.
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