Ferécides of Syros He was a Greek philosopher before Socrates, from the XNUMXth century BC and was a teacher of Pythagoras.
He was born on the island of Siro one of the Cyclades in the 45th Olympiad, he was Pythagoras' maternal uncle. He is considered one of the seven sages of Greece and was the first to write prose.
He consecrated a cave to carry out his astronomical and meteorological studies, and from there it was said that he had the power to predict events such as a shipwreck, the seismo (earthquake), and the siege of the city of Mesene.
His teachings were dictated in a cave.
Many tourists who come to the island of Siro visit the cave of Ferécides, and it has become the biggest attraction.
Marco Tulio Cicero he believes that he was the first to speak of the immortality of the soul.
He traveled to Egypt to study theology (theos-Dio, logos-study), he also studied their language, he even was with the Chaldeans and the Magi, from all of them he learned many things.
He went to Crete and was in the cave of Mount Ida. When he returned to his homeland and being under the rule of a tyrant, he left for Italy.
About his death there are several versions, one says that he died after saving Ephesus, another version says that he committed suicide, another that he died of a disease or eaten by lice and that he was buried by Pythagoras on Delos.
In his epitaph he says
"All wisdom is summed up in me. Who wants to praise me
You must praise Pythagoras first, who is first
On the Greek land. By saying this I am telling the truth ”.
Ferécides left his works in testament to Thales of Miletus.