pythagoras

Pythagoras birth

569 BCE

Pythagoras was born between 562 and 572 B.C in Samos island (Greece)

Olympic games

551 BCE

At 18 he participated in the Olympic Games and was a boxing champion.

What did Pythagoras study?

550 BCE

Pythagoras studied extensively under different teachers. He learned poetry, could recite Homer and play the lyre.

Travels

530 BCE

Pythagoras traveled through Jonia, Lebanon, Syria and surely India. In these travels he learned a lot and that is what helped him to know all that he knew.

Pythagora's life in Egypt

525 BCE

Pythagoras lived in Egypt many years and there he learned geometry. There, he founded his first school, but political problems forced him to leave the country.

Pythagoras' schools

525 BCE

Pythagoras founded his first Pythagorean school in Egypt, where he lived many years, and where he possibly learned geometry. But due to political problems he had to go to Crotona (Italy), where he later founded his second school, where they studied to become musicians, mathematicians, astronomers and philosophers.

Pythagora's life in Croton

520 BCE

When Pythagoras lived in Croton (where he founded the second pythagorean school), he met his first pupil there, Theano, who was also a philosopher. Later, he married her.

Children

517 BCE

The couple had a son named Telauges ,and three daughters named Damo, Arignote, and Myia. Myia is said to have married the famous wrestler Milo of Croton.

Astronomy

515 BCE

Pythagoras taught that the Earth was located at the center of the universe, and that the orbit of the Moon was tilted toward the equator of Earth. He was among the firsts to reveal that the "Morning Star" was the same planet as the "Morning Star", Venus.

Music Intervals

507 BCE

the discovery of the laws of regular musical intervals, that is, the arithmetical relations of the musical scale, is attributed to Pythagoras

Pythagora's theorem

500 BCE

The Pytagorean theorem is exclusively applied to tryangle and tryangles and it help us o obta in cullen form its sides.
This theorem bears this name because his discovry reacts on the pythagoric school.

Events in VI century B.C

477 BCE

-Zen Buddhism penetrates into Vietnam and through China.
-Black plague strikes Asia.
-537: The battle of Camlann takes place, the final battle of the legendary King Arthur.
-590 a. C .: in Egypt, the army sacks Napata, forcing the Cushite court to move to a safer place in Meroe near the sixth cataract.
-Buddha (480-400 BC, ± 20) Nepali religious creator of Buddhism.

Pythagora's quotes

476 BCE

silence is better tha meaning words.
There are two rendenties for the suffeing.
A fool is known by his peech.
Learn to be silent.

Pythagoras' death

475 BCE

The evidence about the place and year of Pythagoras' death is in 508 B. C. The Pythagorean Society of Crotona was violently attacked and Pythagoras escaped to Metaponto, where he would end his days .
Iamblich refers to the following version of events: Cilon, a noble citizen of Croton, a leader by birth, rich and powerful, but also violent and tyrannical, eagerly wanted to participate in the way of life of the Pythagoreans.

Pythagoreans

470 BCE

Pythagoreanism was a philosophical / religious movement in the middle of the 6th century founded by Pythagoras. These formed the pythagorism school

Pythian games

460 BCE

In Pythagoras (Greece) the Pythian games were founded, which is one of the four Panhellenic games with those of Olímpia, Demeos games and Isthmic games.