PYTHAGORAS
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Biography

Interesting facts

World views

How the arché is understood

570 - 490 BC

Whereabouts

Studied in Miletus

Egypt

Miletus

Moved to Croton

Founded a chool which thaught

Born in Somos

Philosophy

Math

Music

Astronomy

Founded a cult (theory)

Divine revelation

brainwashing

Arbitary rules

Secrecy

Mathematikoi

Akousmatikoi

Philosphically and mathemathically oriented Pythagoras followers

Focus on things that Pythagoras has studied

No books or writings by Pythagoras have survived, so he probably taught by speaking to his followers.

Focus on the mystical and cospirational things Pythagoras has said

Spiritually centered

Rules

Don't stir a fire with a knife?

Rub out marks?

Spit on clippings?

No swallows indoors??

Don't urinate facing the sun???

Don't sacrifice white roosters

No rings?

Famous Mathematikoi

Philolaus (470 - 385 BC)
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numbers were the elements of all beings and the universe as a whole was composed of harmony and numbers

Archytas (428 - 347 BC) download

Pythagoras may have had a condition known as synesthesia.

A special type of cup is credited to Pythagoras. The cup works normally when the user sips from it, although the contents are spilled if the user drinks too quickly.

He believed that science and religion were connected, which is a rather controversial belief for the way we view the world now.

Pythagoras believed that the human soul returned over and over again into people, animals and even vegetables.

Pythagoras believed that he had already lived four lives, all of which he could remember.

everything could be reduced to numbers: the whole universe had been built using mathematics

the truth behind the everyday reality we experience lies in numbers

seeking the 'theory of everything' or the 'grand unification' is Pythagoreans philosophy