Pherecydes of Syros (; In Greek: Φερεκύδης ) was a Greek thinker from the island of Syros, of the 6th century BC. Pherecydes authored the Pentemychos or Heptamychos, one of the first attested prose works in Greek literature, which formed an important bridge between mythic and pre-Socratic thought.
Aristotle wrote in Met xii 4 of Pherecydes being in part a mythological writer and Plutarch in Parallel Lives (Sulla 36), instead wrote of him being a ...
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Pherecydes of Syros (; In Greek: Φερεκύδης ) was a Greek thinker from the island of Syros, of the 6th century BC. Pherecydes authored the Pentemychos or Heptamychos, one of the first attested prose works in Greek literature, which formed an important bridge between mythic and pre-Socratic thought.
Aristotle wrote in Met xii 4 of Pherecydes being in part a mythological writer and Plutarch in Parallel Lives (Sulla 36), instead wrote of him being a Theologus (theologian). He was considered to have had the greater significance in teaching on the subject of metampsychosis, and in writings extant in the time of Alexander although no longer so. This having been written in prose language, he is, in fact, considered the first to have communicated or conveyed discourse on philosophical musings in the prose (Smith 1870). According to tradition he floruit 544-541 B.C.E It has been said that he was a son of Babys, and that he was most likely active in ca. 540 BC.
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