Facts about Pythagoras

Summary

Pythagoras (born in Samos, died in Metapontum), he is also known as Pythagoras of Samos, was a famous Mathematician from Greece, who lived between 570 BC and 495 BC.

Biography

Pythagoras (Greek: Πυθαγόρας) was a Greek philosopher, mystic and mathematician.

It's being told that have traveled to Egypt, Babylon and India. He took the knowledge from these communities back to Greece where he founded a Mystery in Croton, one of the Greek cities in Calabria, Italy. Here he found a protector and benefactor, Milo's richest man. Milos daughter Theano was Pythagoras' favorite student, later they were married. According Jamblikos, the last leader of the Syrian Neoplatonic school Evboia, Theano work with the golden mean. Daughter Damo must have been responsible for Pythagoras' surviving writings. The other two daughters, and Arignote Miyia, was also pythagoréere. It is difficult to determine which of the discoveries credited to him that really is his own, which should be attributed to other members of the school, and what he had learned during their long journeys.

Pythagoras believed in reincarnation, and believed that the soul of man can also be reborn in an animal. His disciples in the highest ranks did not eat any meat or fish. Pythagoras himself was a vegetarian. Pythagoras recommended offerings of food to the gods, but rejected the specific blood sacrifice. He believed that the slaughter brings out the lowest instincts and desires of man, and thereby increases the likelihood of war and other violence between people. For him, the soul of a fallen deity, polluted by this world and trapped in the body like a grave, doomed to an eternal cycle of rebirths, but with the ability to free through ritual purification that would bring harmony between the soul and the world around it. He voiced the universal human experience of being a stranger in a world that is our element.

Our collection contains 24 quotes who is written / told by Pythagoras.

Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Confucius, Buddha, Heraclitus, Pericles, Pindar, Anaxagoras, Xenophanes, Themistocles

Source / external links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras