Pythagoras
Also known as: Pythagoras from Samos · Samian Sage · Pythagoras of Samos
- 1Lived approximately from 570 BC to 495 BC.
- 2Founded the school of Pythagoreanism in Croton around 530 BC.
- 3Promoted a communal and ascetic lifestyle among his followers.
- 4Influenced the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.
Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
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Philosophical influence on the poem's final book
Ovid dedicates a significant portion of Book 15 to the teachings of Pythagoras, specifically the doctrine of metempsychosis, which provides a philosophical framework for the poem's theme of constant change.
Pythagoras of Samos was an influential Ionian Greek philosopher and polymath who lived approximately between 570 BC and 495 BC. He is best known as the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism, a movement that integrated complex political and religious teachings that left a lasting mark on the development of Western philosophy.
Map of Italy showing locations associated with PythagorasWikimedia Commons: File:Italy_provincial_location_map_2016.svgPythagoras is credited with having devised the tetractys, [ 87 ] an important sacred symbol in later Pythagoreanism. [ 88 ] [ 89 ]Wikimedia Commons: File:Tetractys.svgPythagoreans Celebrate the Sunrise (1869) by Fyodor BronnikovWikimedia Commons: File:Bronnikov_gimnpifagoreizev.jpgFrench manuscript from 1512/1514, showing Pythagoras turning his face away from fava beans in revulsionWikimedia CommonsThe Pythagorean theorem: The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs ( a and b ) equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse ( c ).Wikimedia CommonsLate medieval woodcut from Franchino Gafurio 's Theoria musice (1492), showing Pythagoras with bells and other instruments in Pythagorean tuning [ 170 ]Wikimedia CommonsHadrian 's Pantheon in Rome, depicted in this eighteenth-century painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini, was built according to Pythagorean teachings. [ 201 ]Wikimedia CommonsPythagoras appears in a relief sculpture on one of the archivolts over the right door of the west portal at Chartres Cathedral. [ 221 ]Wikimedia Commons Around 530 BC, he traveled to Croton in southern Italy, where he established a school. This institution was defined by its ascetic lifestyle and communal living, with initiates reportedly bound by strict oaths of secrecy regarding the school's esoteric doctrines.