Pherecydes

Meaning

Proper Noun

• an Ancient Greek thinker from the island of Syros, who authored a cosmogony that bridged the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socratic philosophy (c. 620-550 BC)
• an historian and genealogist from Athens (fl. c. 465 BC)
• an historian from the Greek island of Leros, possibly the same person as the Athenian historian (before 480-477 BC)

Origin

• From Ancient Greek φέρω ("to carry, to bring") + κῦδος.