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According to Porphyry, Pythagoras married Theano, a lady of Crete and the daughter of Pythenax [87] and had several children with her. [87] 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."
The story here gets more entangled because it inserts portions of the life of Pythagoras—the ones quoted by Porphyry in his biography of Pythagoras. Astraios explains how, during a journey, Mnesarchus, a stepfather of Pythagoras , noticed the exceptional abilities of the child as he watched him lying under a white poplar, looking at the sun ...
Much of the surviving sources on Pythagoras originated with Aristotle and the philosophers of the Peripatetic school, which founded historiographical academic traditions such as biography, doxography and the history of science. The surviving 5th century BC sources on Pythagoras and early Pythagoreanism are void of supernatural elements, while ...
In the biography of Pythagoras in his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laërtius (3rd century CE) cites the statement of Aristoxenus (4th century BCE) that Themistoclea taught Pythagoras his moral doctrines: [2] Aristoxenus says that Pythagoras got most of his moral doctrines from the Delphic priestess Themistoclea.
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 students upon passing their education become initiated to be disciples. Pythagoras was much more intimate with the initiated and would speak to them in person. The specialty taught by Pythagoras was his theoretical teachings. In the society of Crotona, Pythagoras was known as the master of all science and brotherhood. [48]
Nicomachus's Life of Pythagoras was one of the main sources used by Porphyry and Iamblichus, for their (extant) Lives of Pythagoras. [1] An Introduction to Geometry , referred to by Nicomachus himself in the Introduction to Arithmetic, [ 8 ] has not survived. [ 1 ]
Socrates (/ ˈ s ɒ k r ə t iː z /, [2] Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης, romanized: Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy [3] and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.