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PHERECYDES OF LEROS

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PHERECYDES OF LEROS , See also:

Greek mythographer, fl. c. 454 B.C. He is probably identical with Pherecydes of See also:Athens, although the two are distinguished by Suidas (also by I. See also:Lipsius, Quaestiones logographicae, 1886). He seems to have been See also:born in the See also:island of Leros, and to have been called an Athenian because he spent the greater See also:part of his See also:life and wrote his See also:great See also:work there. Of his See also:treatises, On Leros, On I phigeneia, On the Festivals of See also:Dionysus, nothing remains; but numerous fragments of his genealogies of the gods and heroes, variously called 'Icrropiay Fevea)oyiat, AirroXBover, in ten books, written in the Ionic See also:dialect, have been preserved (see C. W. See also:Miller's Frag. Kist. graec., vol. i. pp. xxxiv., 70). He modified the legends, not with a view to rationalizing them, but rather to adjust them to popular beliefs. He cannot, therefore, be classed with Hecataeus, whose method was far more scientific. See C.

Liitke, Pherecydea (See also:

diss. See also:Gottingen, 1893) ; W. See also:Christ, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (1898) ; and specially H. Bertsch, Pherekydeische Studien (1898).

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