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Pythagoras
Pythagoras
570 BCE–495 BCE · Metapontum
Ionian mathematician, mystic, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood at Croton; his teachings combined arithmetic, geometry, harmonics, transmigration of souls, and dietary askesis. Influenced Plato and Western mysticism.
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Stop 1 of 5570 BCEBorn
Samos
What they did here
Born on the Aegean island of Samos under the tyranny of Polycrates; received early Ionian philosophical training.
About Samos
A powerful Ionian island once ruled by the tyrant Polycrates—birthplace of Pythagoras, home of the Eleatic monist Melissus, and the island whose son Aristarchus first dared to set the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the cosmos.
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