Pherecydes of Leros

Pherecydes of Leros in Wikipedia

Pherecydes of Leros (c. 450s BC[1]) was a Greek mythographer and logographer. He came from the island of Leros. Pherecydes spent the greater part of his working life in Athens, and so he was also called Pherecydes of Athens: the encyclopedic Byzantine Suda consider Pherecydes of Athens and of Leros separately. Pherecydes of Leros should not be con...

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Pherecȳdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Greek philosopher, of the isle of Syros, about B.C. 600-550; said to have been the first writer of prose. He wrote in the Ionic dialect of the origin of the world and the gods (Cosmogonia and Theogonia). The poetic element seems to have held a predominant place in his prose. He is also said to have been the first to maintain the doctrine of the t...

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