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Pythagoras

Also known as Pythagoras of Samos, Pythagoras from Samos, Samian Sage

Pythagoras of Samos (;  BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy. Modern scholars disagree regarding Pythagoras's education and influences, but most agree that he travelled to Croton in southern Italy around 530 BC, where he founded a school in which initiates were allegedly sworn to secrecy and lived a communal, ascetic lifestyle.

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Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher and founder of Pythagoreanism whose political and religious teachings influenced major Western philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. Around 530 BC, he established a secretive school in southern Italy where followers lived communally and followed an ascetic lifestyle, making him a significant figure in the development of Western philosophical thought.

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Quotes

“I was Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.”
“By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse.”
“Τὴν δ' ἀνθρώπου ψυχὴν διῃρῆσθαι τριχῆ, εἴς τε νοῦν καὶ φρένας καὶ θυμόν. νοῦν μὲν οὖν καὶ θυμὸν εἶναι καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις ζῴοις, φρένας δὲ μόνον ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ.”
“ἀλλήλοις θ᾽ ὁμιλεῖν, ὡς τοὺς μὲν φίλους ἐχθροὺς μὴ ποιῆσαι, τοὺς δ᾽ ἐχθροὺς φίλους ἐργάσασθαι. ἴδιόν τε μηδὲν ἡγεῖσθαι.”
“ἐν ὀργῇ μήτε τι λέγειν μήτε πράσσειν”
“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”

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Philosopher.alt: Marble bust of a man with a long, pointed beard, wearing a tainia, a kind of ancient Greek headcovering in this case resembling a turban. The face is somewhat gaunt and has prominent, but thin, eyebrows, which seem halfway fixed into a scowl. The ends of his mustache are long a trail halfway down the length of his beard to about where the bottom of his chin would be if we could see it. None of the hair on his head is visible, since it is completely covered by the tainia.
Philosopher.caption: Bust of Pythagoras of Samos in theCapitoline Museums, Rome
Philosopher.birth_date:  BC
Philosopher.birth_place: Samos
Philosopher.death_date:  BC (aged around 75)
Philosopher.death_place: either Croton or Metapontum
Philosopher.era: Pre-Socratic philosophy
Philosopher.region: Western philosophy
Philosopher.school_tradition: Pythagoreanism
Philosopher.notable_ideas: Attributed ideas:
Philosopher.name: Pythagoras
Philosopher.image: Pythagoras in the Roman Forum, Colosseum.jpg

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Commons category: Pythagoras
name in native language: Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος
date of death: 0490-00-00
date of birth: 0570-00-00
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Pythagorae Carmen Aureum: Graece & Latine, Cum Analysi Critica & Ethica, Imitationibus item Graeco-Latinis. II, Casp. Barlaei Orationesii Patheticae, una Elegiaca, altera Epica, Cum Analysi Rhetorica, Paraphrasi, Tropologia, & Formullis loquendi selectis. III, Miscella Quaedam, Carmina, Inscriptiones, Epistolas, Testimonia & c. complexa. Cum Indice in Pythag. gemino

Pythagora’s golden sayings: A Uibersediment; At Colmar’s farewell

Aurea Pythagoreorum Carmina

Die goldenen Sprüche des Pythagoras

Pythagoras, Phocylides, Theognis Carmine Latino expressi

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Contents

Life
Early life
Reputed travels
Alleged Greek teachers
In Croton
Family and friends
Death
Teachings
Metempsychosis
Numerology
Pythagoreanism
Communal lifestyle
Prohibitions and regulations
Legends
Attributed discoveries
In mathematics
In music
In astronomy
Later influence in antiquity
On Greek philosophy
On art and architecture
In early Christianity
Influence after antiquity
In the Middle Ages
On modern science
On vegetarianism
On Western esotericism
On literature
See also
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Classical sources
Modern secondary sources
Further reading
External links

In antiquity, Pythagoras was credited with mathematical and scientific discoveries, such as the Pythagorean theorem, Pythagorean tuning, the five regular solids, the theory of proportions, the sphericity of the Earth, the identity of the morning and evening stars as the planet Venus, and the division of the globe into five climatic zones. He was reputedly the first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom"). Historians debate whether Pythagoras made these discoveries and pronouncements, as some of the accomplishments credited to him likely originated earlier or were made by his colleagues or successors, such as Hippasus and Philolaus.