¹¹ Such as that of King Midas and Silenus, in his Eudemus, Fr. 6 Ross. Aristotle, however, claims that ‘into the subtleties of mythologists it is not worth our while to inquire seriously’ (Metaphysics 1000a18–19). Though he admits that ‘the lover of myths is in a sense a lover of wisdom, for myth is composed of wonders’, and ‘it is owing to their wonder that men both now and at first began to philosophize’ (982b18) (translations by W. D. Ross, in J. Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle, vol. ii, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984). As for Heraclides, we know at least that he told of a vision of one Empedotimus, probably in his work On the Things in Hades (Fr. 93 Wehrli), who was granted by Pluto and Persephone a view of ‘the whole truth about souls’. This sounds interestingly similar to the contents of the myth of both Cicero and Plutarch mentioned below. Unless otherwise noted, all translations in this section are by John Dillon.