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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 ...
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 ...
Pythagoras appears in a relief sculpture on one of the archivolts over the right door of the west portal at Chartres Cathedral. [ 89 ] Although the concept of the quadrivium originated with Archytas in the 4th century BC and was a familiar concept among academics in the antiquity, it was attributed as Pythagorean in the 5th century by Proclus .
Theano (/ θ i ˈ æ n oʊ /; Greek: Θεανώ) was a 6th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher. She has been called the wife or student of Pythagoras, although others see her as the wife of Brontinus.
As the sect credited Pythagoras with authorship for members' work, it is likely that Damo contributed to the doctrines ascribed to the philosopher. [6] According to one story, Pythagoras bequeathed his writings to Damo, and she kept them safe, refusing to sell them, believing that poverty and her father's solemn injunctions were more precious ...
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Hellenic Post. The ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras and his eponymous theorem have made numerous appearances in art and pop culture, typically as a reference to mathematical endeavors, but also as an example of abstruse higher learning in general.