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Pherecydes of Syros (; ; fl. 6th century BC) was a Greek thinker from the island of Syros. Pherecydes authored a cosmogony, derived from three divine principles, ''Zas'' (Zeus),〔"Doric and Attic-Ionic forms with α (of doubtful origin), nom. Ζάν () nom. Ζάς Pherecyd.Syr.1, 2 (Ζής ap.Hdn.Gr. l.c.()), "Ζάς Ζαντός" Choerob. in Theod.1.116; Δάν (q. v.); Τάν Head Hist.Num.2469 (Crete)" (Ζεύς ) – Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon〕 ''Cthonie'' (Earth)〔"Ionic ἡ χθονίη, an earlier name of Γῆ (cf. Dam.Pr.124bis )" (χθόνιος ) – Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon〕 and ''Chronos'' (Time), known as the "Pentemychos" (Πεντέμυχος, "of the five recesses"; sometimes the alternative title "Heptamychos", "seven recesses" is given). It formed a bridge between the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socratic philosophy. His work is lost, but it survived into the Hellenistic period and we are informed on part of its content indirectly. Pherecydes was said to have been the first writer to communicate philosophical musings in prose. According to William (ca. 1896), ''Aristotle regarded him partly a mythological writer and Plutarch, as well as many other writers gave him the title of Theologus''. == Life == According to tradition Pherecydes was a native of the island of Syros and flourished in the 59th Olympiad (544–541 BC).〔C. H. Kahn, (Harvey Yunis ed.), (''Written texts and the rise of literate culture in ancient Greece'' ), 262 pages ISBN 0-521-80930-4 Cambridge University Press, 2003 Retrieved 2012-02-08〕〔Herbert Granger, (2007), (''The Theologian Pherecydes of Syros and the Early Days of Natural Philosophy'' ), pp. 135–163 Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Vol. 103.〕 It was said that he was a son of one Babys. Schibli (1990) dates his birth in the 49th olympiad (584–581). Anecdotes of "unknown reliability"〔Mark Henderson Munn, ''The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the tyranny of Asia: a study of sovereignty in ancient religion'', 452 pages ISBN 0-520-24349-8 (p48 ) University of California Press, 1 June 2006 Retrieved 2012-02-08〕 place Pherecydes on the island of Samos, and in the city of Ephesus, where he is supposed to have been buried, although another tradition claims he was buried on Delos.〔Diogenes Laertius, i. 116-121; Diodorus Siculus, 10.4.3; ''Suda'', ''Pherekudes Babuos Syrios''〕 Aristotle wrote in his ''Metaphysics''〔Aristotle, ''Metaphysics'', 1091b8〕 of Pherecydes being in part a mythological writer and Plutarch, in his ''Parallel Lives'',〔Plutarch, ''Sulla'' 36〕 instead wrote of him being a theologian. He was considered to have had the greater significance in teaching on the subject of metempsychosis.〔Cicero, ''Tusculan Disputations'', i. 16〕 His writings were extant in the Hellenistic period, although only fragments have survived to the present day. His works were written in prose rather than verse and he has been said to have been the first to have communicated or conveyed philosophical musings in this form.〔William Smith, (1870), ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', Boston, Little (archive ) Retrieved 2012-02-08 and also earlier〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pherecydes of Syros」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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