List of Famous people named Pherecydes

Pherecydes of Syros was a Greek or Syrian thinker from the island of Syros. Pherecydes authored a cosmogony, derived from three divine principles, Zas (Zeus), Cthonie (Earth) and Chronos (Time), known as the "Pentemychos". 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. Aristotle regarded him partly a mythological writer and Plutarch, as well as many other writers gave him the title of Theologus.

Pherecydes of Athens, described as an historian and genealogist, wrote an ancient work in ten books, now lost, variously titled "Historiai" (Ἱστορίαι) or "Genealogicai" (Γενελογίαι). He is one of the authors whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.

Pherecydes of Leros was, according to the Suda, an ancient Greek historian from the island of Leros, who lived "before the seventy-fifth Olympiad", and wrote three works: On Leros, On Iphigenia, and On the Festivals of Dionysus. Although, the Suda considers them separately, he is possibly the same person as Pherecydes of Athens.