baumhaus.digital/Studium Generale/Prolegomena to Educatio Digitale/Session 1 :: Mythology/Philosophy :: Pythagoras (c.β570 β c.β495 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