Φερεκύδης
Pherekydes, Pherecydes
Translated by William Hutton21 Feb 2001Vetting: high3 revisions
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 · Adler’s text
Φερεκύδης, Ἀθηναῖος, πρεσβύτερος τοῦ Συρίου, ὃν λόγος τὰ Ὀρφέως συναγαγεῖν. ἔγραψεν Αὐτόχθονας· ἔστι δὲ περὶ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἀρχαιολογίας ἐν βιβλίοις ιʹ· Παραινέσεις δι' ἐπῶν. Πορφύριος δὲ τοῦ προτέρου οὐδένα πρεσβύτερον δέχεται, ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνον μόνον ἡγεῖται ἀρχηγὸν συγγραφῆς.
Betacode
*fereku/dhs, *)aqhnai=os, presbu/teros tou= *suri/ou, o(\n lo/gos ta\ *)orfe/ws sunagagei=n. e)/grayen *au)to/xqonas: e)/sti de\ peri\ th=s *)attikh=s a)rxaiologi/as e)n bibli/ois i#: *paraine/seis di' e)pw=n. *porfu/rios de\ tou= prote/rou ou)de/na presbu/teron de/xetai, a)ll' e)kei=non mo/non h(gei=tai a)rxhgo\n suggrafh=s.
Notes (1)
- FGrH 3 T2. See also phi 214 (with more extensive notes and references) and phi 217; OCD4 Pherecydes(2).
- 1FGrH 260 F21. (Eusebius put him in Olympiad 81.1: 456 BCE.) ↩
Linked from2 entries
- φ214ΦερεκύδηςPherekydes, PherecydesSon of Babys; a Syrian; Syra is one of the Cyclades islands, near to Delos. He lived in the time of Alyattes, king of [the] Lydians, thus contemporary with the Seven Sages, and was born in about the forty-fifth…
- φ217ΦερεκύδηςPherekydes, PherecydesOf Leros, a historian, lived a little before the seventy-fifth Olympiad. [He wrote] About Leros, About Iphigeneia, About the Festivals of Dionysus, etc.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 6 Aug 2014
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented note; added bibliography; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton