Claim: Cercops was one of the oldest Orphic poets who was called a Pythagorean by Epigenes of Alexandria.
Evidence: He was called a Pythagorean by Clement of Alexandria, which might have meant a Neopythagorean. Not to be confused with Cecrops, two mythical kings of Athens. Cicero, was said by Epigenes of Alexandria to have been the author of an Orphic epic poem entitled "the Descent to Hades" which seems to have been extant in the Alexandrian period. Epigenes also assigns to Cercops the Orphic ἱερος λογός which was ascribed by some to Theognetus of Thessaly, and was a poem in twenty-four books.