Pythagoreans on Superphysics

Archytas: Pythagoreans

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¹ Archytas was:

a native of Tarentum
the son of Mnesagoras; or, as Aristoxenus relates, of Histiæus.

² He also was a Pythagorean

He saved Plato’s life through a letter, when he was in danger of being put to death by Dionysius.

Empedocles: Pythagoras

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¹ Hippobotus says that Empedocles was:

the son of Meton

a citizen of Agrigentum.

Timæus, in book 15 of his Histories adds that Empedocles, the grandfather of the poet, was also a most eminent man.

Epicharmus: Pythagorean

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¹ Epicharmus was:

a native of Cos
the son of Helothales
a pupil of Pythagoras

When he was 3 months old, he was brought to Megara, in Sicily.

From thence he came to Syracuse, as he himself tells us in his writings. And on his statue there is the following inscription.

Philolaus: Pythagoreans

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¹ Philolaus was:

a native of Crotona
a pupil of Pythagoras

It was from him that Plato wrote to Dion to take care and purchase the books of Pythagoras.

II. He died under suspicion of having designed to seize on the tyranny; and we have written an epigram on him:

Pythagoras:

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¹ The Ionian philosophy was derived from Thales.

The Italian School was founded by Pythagoras who was:

the son of Mnesarchus, a seal engraver, as he is recorded to have been by Hermippus
a native of Samos, or as Aristoxenus asserts, a Tyrrhenian, and a native of one of the islands which the Athenians occupied after they had driven out the Tyrrhenians.

But some authors say that he was the son of Marmacus, the son of Hippasus, the son of Euthyphron, the son of Cleonymus, who was an exile from Phlias; and that Marmacus settled in Samos, and that from this circumstance Pythagoras was called a Samian.

Pythagoras

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⁶ Sosicrates, in his Successions, relates that Pythagoras was asked by Leon, the tyrant of the Phliasians, who he was.

He replied, “A philosopher.”

He used to compare life to a festival.