Pherecydes

Meanings

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)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pherecȳdēs, from Ancient Greek Φερεκῡ́δης (Pherekū́dēs), from Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō, “to carry, to bring”) + κῦδος (kûdos, “renown, glory”) + -ης (-ēs).