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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 child's exceptional abilities as he watched him lying under a white poplar, looking at the sun ...
Pythagoras appears in a relief sculpture on one of the archivolts over the right door of the west portal at Chartres Cathedral. [ 84 ] 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 .
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.
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.
According to tradition, he was the son of Pythagoras and Theano. [1] [2] [3] Iamblichus claims that Pythagoras died when Telauges was very young, and that Telauges eventually married Bitale the daughter of Damo, his sister. [4] It was said that Telauges was a teacher of Empedocles, [1] [5] [6] perhaps in an attempt to link Empedocles to Pythagoras.
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 ...
Aesara of Lucania (Greek: Αἰσάρα Aisara) (fl. 400BC - 300BC) was a conjectured Pythagorean philosopher who may have written On Human Nature, a fragment of which is preserved by Stobaeus, although the majority of critical scholars follow Holger Thesleff [1] in attributing it to Aresas, [2] a male writer from Lucania who is also mentioned by Iamblichus in his Life of Pythagoras.