pherecydes

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Proper noun

1. An [[Ancient Greek]] [[thinker]] from the island of [[Syros]], who authored a cosmogony that bridged the mythological thought of [[Hesiod]] and [[pre-Socratic]] [[philosophy]] (fl. 6th century BC)
2. An [[historian]] and [[genealogist]] from [[Athens]] (fl. c. 465 BC)
3. An historian from the Greek island of Leros, possibly the same person as the Athenian historian (before 480–477 BC)

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