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Porphyry writes that Pythagoras had two sons named Telauges and Arignote, [87] and a daughter named Myia, [87] who "took precedence among the maidens in Croton and, when a wife, among married women." [87] Iamblichus mentions none of these children [87] and instead only mentions a son named Mnesarchus after his grandfather. [87]
Pythagoras, in his teachings focused on the significance of numerology, he believed that numbers themselves explained the true nature of the Universe. Numbers were in the Greek world of Pythagoras' days natural numbers – that is positive integers (there was no zero). But unlike their Greek contemporaries, the Pythagorean philosophers ...
Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales [1] [2] and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the ancient Greek world, including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. ↵Abbreviations used in this list: c. = circa; fl. = flourished
Pythagoras' Cave, where Pythagoras is said to have hidden from the tyrant Polycrates on Mount Kerkis on Samos; Pythagoreion, a town on Samos; Pythagoras (crater) – a lunar crater; PythagoraSwitch – a Japanese educational TV program, which also features sequences showing Pythagorean Devices (ピタゴラ装置, Pitagora Sōchi).
Hippasus of Metapontum (/ ˈ h ɪ p ə s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἵππασος ὁ Μεταποντῖνος, Híppasos; c. 530 – c. 450 BC) [1] was a Greek philosopher and early follower of Pythagoras. [2] [3] Little is known about his life or his beliefs, but he is sometimes credited with the discovery of the existence of irrational numbers.
The Seven Sages (Latin: Septem Sapientes), depicted in the Nuremberg ChronicleThe list of the seven sages given in Plato's Protagoras comprises: [1]. Thales of Miletus (c. 624 BCE – c. 546 BCE) is the first well-known Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer.
Father of Pythagoras; Mnesarchus of Athens, a Stoic philosopher, lived c. 100 BC; A possible name of the father of Euripides; Father of Callias of Chalcis; An assistant archon of Athens (thesmothete) From the Phoenician city of Tyre
The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras And Other Pythagorean Fragments. Theosophical Publishing House. Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. (2007). Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and his Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7409-5; Kahn, Charles H. (2001). Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A ...