Listed 9 sub titles with search on: Biographies for wider area of: "SYROS Island KYKLADES" .
SYROS (Town) KYKLADES
1835 - 1908
1836 - 1904
ANO SYROS (Small town) SYROS
1905 - 1972
Pherecydes, (Pherekudes). A Greek philosopher, of the isle of Syros, about B.C. 600-550; said to have been the first writer of prose. He wrote in the Ionic dialect of the origin of the world and the gods (Cosmogonia and Theogonia). The poetic element seems to have held a predominant place in his prose. He is also said to have been the first to maintain the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, which his pupil Pythagoras borrowed from him.
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