* Pherecydes of Leros:

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

Other logographers flourished from the middle of the 6th century BC until the Greco-Persian Wars ; Pherecydes of Leros, who died about 400 BC, is generally considered the last.

* Pherecydes of Leros *

Plutarch's sources, not all of whose texts have survived independently, included Pherecydes ( mid-sixth century BC ), Demon ( ca 300 BC ), Philochorus, and Cleidemus ( both fourth century BC ).

Pherecydes, native to the Aegean, wrote that the island was occupied by the Leleges, aboriginal Greeks themselves reported to be subject to the Minoans on Crete.

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.

According to Pherecydes of Syros, the second element of his name is derived from, an archaic word for " tree ".

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.

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.

The earliest version of Procris ' story comes from Pherecydes.

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.

The meaning of " sorcerer " is attested in a scholion, referring to the Dactyli, stating that according to Pherecydes and Hellanicus, those to the left are goētes, while those to the right are deliverers from sorcery.

Apart from being linked with this, Pythagoras is also closely linked with Pherecydes of Syros, the man ancient commentators tend to credit as the first Greek to teach a transmigration of souls.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Pherecydes transformed the Greek pantheon beyond recognition, with Zas (" he who lives ") rather than Zeus as the king of the gods, and Chronos (" time ") rather than Kronos as Zas's father.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

ca: Leros