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The poet Heraclitus of Ephesus (fl. c. 500 BC), who was born across a few miles of sea away from Samos and may have lived within Pythagoras's lifetime, [14] mocked Pythagoras as a clever charlatan, [8] [14] remarking that "Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchus, practiced inquiry more than any other man, and selecting from these writings he manufactured ...
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 ...
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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]
Porphyry repeats the claim that she was the teacher of Pythagoras: [4] He (Pythagoras) taught much else, which he claimed to have learned from Aristoclea at Delphi. The 10th-century Suda encyclopedia calls her Theoclea ( Theokleia ) and states that she was the sister of Pythagoras, but this information probably arises from a corruption and ...
Pythagoreanism, the esoteric and metaphysical beliefs purported to have been held by Pythagoras; Neopythagoreanism, a school of philosophy reviving Pythagorean doctrines that became prominent in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD; Pythagorean diet, the name for vegetarianism before the nineteenth century
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 ...
Hippasus, engraving by Girolamo Olgiati, 1580. 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.