Philosophy :: Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)

• a half-mythological, half-historic personage
• first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom")
• important contributions to mathematics (e.g. Pythagorean theorem, Theory of Proportions etc.) and music (e.g. Pythagorean tuning, musica universalis etc.)

Bust of Pythagoras from Forum Romanum, Rome