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Headword:
Pherekudês
Adler number: phi,216
Translated headword: Pherekydes, Pherecydes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Athens, older than the one from
Syros, who, it is said, collected the
writings of Orpheus. He wrote
Earth-born [Men], a work about the ancient history of Attica in ten books;
Exhortations in hexameters. Porphyrios accepts no one older than the earlier [of these two
Pherekydes'], and considers him the sole inventor of [prose] composition.[1]
Greek Original:Pherekudês, Athênaios, presbuteros tou Suriou, hon logos ta Orpheôs sunagagein. egrapsen Autochthonas: esti de peri tês Attikês archaiologias en bibliois i#: Paraineseis di' epôn. Porphurios de tou proterou oudena presbuteron dechetai, all' ekeinon monon hêgeitai archêgon sungraphês.
Notes:
FGrH 3 T2. See also
phi 214 (with more extensive notes and references) and
phi 217; OCD4
Pherecydes(2).
[1] FGrH 260 F21. (
Eusebius put him in Olympiad 81.1: 456 BCE.)
Keywords: biography; chronology; epic; geography; historiography; meter and music; mythology; poetry; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 February 2001@15:49:32.
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