Phérécyde of Syros

See also: Phérécyde

Phérécyde de Syros (in Φερεκύδης Greek) is a Greek philosphe Présocratique, which lived at the 6th century before JC. It was born with Syros, one of the Cyclades, in the 45e Olympiad. He would have been the first Greek thinker with speaking about the immortality of the heart. Maternal uncle of Pythagore, it exempted his lesson to him. With Anaximandre, it would be among the first Greek thinkers to have written in Prose.

Biography

Wire of Babys, Phérécyde lived at sixth century BC

It belongs to the seven wise cities by Diogène Laërce.

It went in Egypt to learn there the Théologie and a science from more exact nature.

Capacities of prediction were allotted to him: ship which makes shipwreck, prediction of a Séisme, seat of a city (Messène).

Its death is also legendary: either he died after having saved Éphèse by his capacity of prediction, or he committed suicide with Delphes, or he died of a disease or eaten by lice and was buried by Pythagore with Délos.

He exempted his teaching in a cave.

Douris de Samos ( Sanctuaires , liv.II) brings back its epitaph - whose drafting contradicts the fact that Pythagore buried it:

“All wisdom is summarized in me. Who wants to me louer
Must rent Pythagore rather, because it is the premier
On the Greek ground. This saying, I say the truth. ”

To its death, Diogène Laërce indicates that Phérécyde wrote with Thalès a will by which it delivers its writings to him.

Known works

  • Heptamychia first treaty in prose on nature

  • sundial preserved on the island of Syros.

Heptamychia

Because of its original work, it passed in the legend. He is the author of the Heptamychia, one of the first works in prose attested of the Greek Littérature, which constitutes a major bridge between the mythical thought and Présocratique. Phérécyde develops its philosophical thought to with it through the mythical representations. Although it is lost in its entirety, it is possible to have a general idea of work thanks to the remaining fragments. Aristote in its Métaphysique does not qualify it T it not like a mixture of myths and philosophy?

Phérécyde delivers a history of the world to us which proceeds of a rationalization of the the Greek Pantheon. God of the gods is not any more Zeus but Zas, " that which vit". His/her father is less Chronos Titan parent that his representation, namely the time, on which depends water, the ground, the air and fire. The quarrel between the father and the son seems be to have overlooked. Stopwatches and Zas engages in a war against Ophion or Ophioneus the man-snake; and Zas celebrates its victory by weaving a dress for Chtonie, which is transformed into Ge, i.e. the surface of the ground.

Which is the share of Phérécyde to the formation of the thought Présocratique?

  1. the refusal of a creation ex nihilo

  2. a car-creation of cosmos
  3. the eternal nature of the first principles

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