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There is not the slightest doubt among historians that the great Pythagoras was a son of Samos. He was born in the 50th Olympiad, that is, 580-574 BC. His father was Mnesarchus, who was from Etruria, but who settled , lived and died on Samos. His mother, Parthenia, was a descendant of Angaeus, the first King of Samos.
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Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher from Samos who founded the Pythagorean School in Crotona. Not much is known of his actual findings because all his students attributed all their work to Pythagoras whom they ranked among the gods. His school became somewhat of a secret society and was extremely exclusive. Pythagoras and his students are best
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Pythagoras lived in Croton for thirty years. Within twenty years this extraordinary man had acquired such power that those who called him a demi-god were not looked upon as exaggerating. This power seemed to have something miraculous about it, no like influence had ever been exercised by a philosopher. It extended not merely to the school of Croton and its ramifications in other towns on the coast of Italy, but even to the politics of all these small states. Pythagoras was a reformer in the whole acceptation of the term. Croton, a colony of Achaïa, had an aristocratic constitution.
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Pythagoras accumulated power at Croton by revitalizing the city after a military defeat and then by framing a new constitution. This constitution was aristocratic, which at the time meant rule by the best (the best=aristoi). Since the best men on Croton were Pythagoras and his followers, they soon had control of the city.
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Pythagoras, the son of Mnesarchus and Pythais, was born on the island of Samos, off the coast of Asia Minor (what is now mostly Turkey), about 569 BC. Pythais was a native of Samos. Mnesarchus was a merchant from Tyre. An apocryphal story says that he brought grain to Samos during a famine and was granted citizenship of Samos out of gratitude.
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Pythagoras was born on a small island called Samos, but when the island’s government began to brutalize intellectuals, he fled to Italy and started his own school in the region of Croton. While there, many scholars believed Pythagoras became not only active in education, but ... in politics. When another sect began losing followers to Pythagoras’ teachings, the group attacked Pythagoras’ disciples, killing nearly all of them.
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