 The skin of Epimenides was preserved at the courts of the ephores in Sparta, conceivably as a good-luck charm.Epimenides is also reckoned with Melampus and Onomacritus as one of the founders of Orphism.According to Diogenes Laërtius, Epimenides met Pythagoras in Crete, and they went to the Cave of Ida.