If this statement derives from Pherecydes, both native and knowledgeable, it has great weight.

* Pherecydes of Syros, a pre-Socratic philosopher and author from the island of Syros, by some believed to have influenced Pythagoras

* Pherecydes of Leros, an historian and mythologic writer from the island of Leros close to Miletos

Authorities have not agreed on how the notion arose in Greece: sometimes Pythagoras is said to have been Pherecydes ' pupil, sometimes to have introduced it with the doctrine of Orphism, a Thracian religion that was to be important in the diffusion of reincarnation, or else to have brought the teaching from India.

The second element is associated with Mount Nysa, the birthplace of the god in Greek mythology, where he was nursed by nymphs ( the Nysiads ), but according to Pherecydes of Syros, was an archaic word for " tree.

An alternate story told by the poet Pherecydes was followed in Callimachus ' poem " The Bathing of Pallas "; in it, Tiresias was blinded by Athena after he stumbled onto her bathing naked.

Cadmus gave her a robe and the necklace wrought by Hephaestus, which some say was given to Cadmus by Hephaestus, but Pherecydes says that it was given by Europa, who had received it from Zeus.

In a myth alluded to in a fragment of Pherecydes, Zeus turned them to stone for trying to deceive even him ; the stone was shown to visitors to Thermopylae.

Pentemychos means " five recesses " or " five chambers ," also known as the pentagonas — the five-angle, and was the title of a work written by Pythagoras ' teacher and friend Pherecydes of Syros.

Ancient commentators agree that Pherecydes was Pythagoras's most " intimate " teacher.

Pherecydes of Leros (; 450s BC ) was a Greek mythographer and logographer.

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 confused with Pherecydes of Syros, the mid-6th-century philosopher, who was one of the Seven Sages of Greece and was reputed to have been the teacher of Pythagoras.

Pherecydes was the main source for the mythological encyclopedia, the Bibliotheke mistakenly connected with the name of Apollodorus.

Perhaps the first attempt to construct mythology was the book of Pherecydes of Syros, written in Greek Southern Italy in the 6th century BC.

Pherecydes ( in Greek: Φερεκύδης ) was the name of:

Asopus is often clearly the Phliasian Asopus ( so indicated by Pherecydes ) but not always so.

In an earlier account recorded by Pherecydes, Telamon and Peleus were not brothers, but friends.

In Pherecydes, however, Eteocles expels Polynices by force, and keeps the rule of Thebes and the inheritance.

The ancient Pythagorean pentagram, with two legs up, represented the Pentemychos ( πεντέμυχος " of five sanctuaries "), a cosmogony written by Pythagoras ' teacher and friend Pherecydes of Syros.

Pherecydes expounded his teaching on the soul in terms of a pentemychos (" five-nooks ," or " five hidden cavities ") — the most likely origin of the Pythagorean use of the pentagram, used by them as a symbol of recognition among members and as a symbol of inner health ( eugieia Eudaimonia ).

Pherecydes of Leros ( ca 480 ) attributed to the Leleges the coast land of Caria, from Ephesus to Phocaea, with the islands of Samos and Chios, placing the true Carians farther south from Ephesus to Miletus.

Often historians assume, as a general rule, that autochthonous inhabitants survive an invasion as an under-class where they do not retreat to mountain districts, so it is interesting to hear in Deipnosophistae that Philippus of Theangela ( a 4th century BCE historian ) referred to Leleges still surviving as serfs of the " true Carians ", and even later Strabo attributes to the Leleges a distinctive group of deserted forts and tombs in Caria that were still known in his day as " Lelegean forts "; the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 identified these as ruins that could still be traced ranging from the neighborhood of Theangela and Halicarnassus as far north as Miletus, the southern limit of the " true Carians " of Pherecydes.

Therefore, Pherecydes cannot be classed with the earlier mythographer Hecataeus of Miletus, whose Genealogiai (" Genealogies ") were more skeptical and critical.

* Scholiast on Euripides: Alalcomeneus, Eudorus, Argeius, Lysippus, Phereus, Xanthus, Chione, Clytia, Hore, Lamippe, Melia, Pelopia ( according to Pherecydes ); Archenor, Archagoras, Menestratus, son's name missing, Astycrateia, Ogygia, Pelopia ( according to Hellanicus )

An early Greek thinker known to have considered rebirth is Pherecydes of Syros ( fl.

* Pherecydes of Syros ( c. 540 BCE )

Pherecydes of Syros ( 6th century BC ), believed that there were three pre-existent divine principles and called the water also Chaos .< ref >< DK B1a ></ ref > In the language of the archaic period ( 8th – 6th century BC ), arche ( or archai ), designates the source, origin or root of things that exist.

The earliest Greek thinker with whom metempsychosis is connected is Pherecydes of Syros ; but Pythagoras, who is said to have been his pupil, is its first famous philosophic exponent.

Hesiod referred to her as Iophossa, and Pherecydes as Euenia.

The primary literary source for the story is the poet Pherecydes of Athens, preserved in a quoted fragment ( Pherecydes Fr.

Children: According to Pherecydes, Aristaeus fathered Hecate, goddess of witchcraft, crossroads and the night.

The earliest version of Procris ' story comes from Pherecydes.

The tale resumes with a similar ending to that of Pherecydes, as Procris is informed of her husband's calling out to " Aura ", the Latin word for breeze.

Pherecydes of Syros's Heptamychia is the first attested mention of Ophion.

We also have fragments of the writings of the early philosopher Pherecydes of Syros ( 6th century ) who devised a myth or legend in which powers known as Zas and Chronos ' Time ' and Chthonie ' Of the Earth ' existed from the beginning and in which Chronos creates the universe.

Eusebius of Caesarea in his Praeparatio Evangelica ( 1. 10 ) cites Philo of Byblos as declaring that Pherecydes took Ophion and the Ophionidae from the Phoenicians.

According to Pherecydes Melampous overhears two woodworms saying that a beam in the ceiling of his prison is about to collapse.

The Cyclades is where the native Greek breed of cat ( the Aegean cat ) first came from.

Crocuses are native to woodland, scrub and meadows from sea level to alpine tundra in central and southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, on the islands of the Aegean, and across Central Asia to western China.

In ethno-cultural terms, the population of Edremit is a mixture of Balkan Turks, descendants of immigrants from Aegean Islands, some Circassians, as well as native Tahtacı Turkmens, who pursue their own traditions and life-style to this day.