Pherecydes

The Chaldæans had a fable concerning a quarrel between God and the serpent, and this fable had been preserved by Pherecydes.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

One Pherecydes is supposed to have been the first Greek who made exclusive use of prose to compose one of those half-true, half-false histories so common to antiquity.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It was immortal and was given them by their mother Nephele, and had a golden fleece, as Hesiod and Pherecydes say.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

And this we mention not to disparage them, knowing very well that Pherecydes and Heraclitus, both very excellent persons, labored under very uncouth and calamitous distempers.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Menoeceus, son of Creon; Macaria, daughter of Hercules; and from later times, Pherecydes the philosopher, slain by the

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

There died of this disease, amongst those of the most ancient times, Acastus, the son of Pelias; of later date, Alcman the poet, Pherecydes the theologian,

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Pherecydes, Hellanicus, and Herodorus, write that he made this voyage many years after Hercules, with a navy under his own command, and took the Amazon prisoner, the more probable story, for we do not read that any other, of all those that accompanied him in this action, took any Amazon prisoner.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Pherecydes adds that he bored holes in the bottoms of the

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Aeneas was dreadfully tossed and endangered by a storm; and perhaps for the same reason Herod, that tyrant and cruel King of Judaea, finding himself near the pangs of a horrid kind of death — for he died of a phthiriasis, devoured by vermin and lice; as before him died L. Sylla, Pherecydes the Syrian, the preceptor of

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Aeneas was dreadfully tossed and endangered by a storm; and perhaps for the same reason Herod, that tyrant and cruel King of Judaea, finding himself near the pangs of a horrid kind of death — for he died of a phthiriasis, devoured by vermin and lice; as before him died L. Sylla, Pherecydes the Syrian, the preceptor of

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002