Pythagoreanism

From 494 BC (the date of the destruction of Miletus), with the Milesian school, all traces of Ionian physics temporarily disappeared. Intellectual life had already shifted to the flourishing colonies of Magna Graecia and Sicily. Several of the men who … Read More

The Pythagorean school founded by Pythagoras (580-495 BC) in Magna Graecia constitutes a brotherhood that is both scientific and religious: Pythagoreanism is indeed based on an initiation and offers its followers a way of ethics and food life, as well … Read More