Evidence: Pythagoras in Chains
Later biographies say Pythagoras was taken from Egypt to Babylon after Cambyses’s conquest and studied with Magi and Babylonian scholars. These detailed traditions were written centuries later and cannot be treated as secure biography. Ancient or late-antiq…
The Book of Diesel 26 · prequel→evidenceEvidence: The Magus and the Triangle
Babylonian mathematics long predated Pythagoras, including sophisticated work with right-triangle relationships. Later traditions connect Pythagoras with Babylonian and Magian learning, but direct lines of transmission are debated. A documented text or trad…
The Book of Diesel 27 · prequel→evidenceEvidence: The Music Between Nations
Pythagorean tradition later emphasized musical proportion and disciplined communal life. Babylon was an intercultural center where Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, Judean, and Iranian knowledge could meet under Persian rule. The setting or public event is docum…
The Book of Diesel 28 · prequel→evidenceEvidence: Samos Under a Persian Sky
Traditional chronologies place Pythagoras back on Samos after the island had entered the Persian imperial sphere, before his later move to Croton. Details of his movements remain uncertain. The setting or public event is documented; dialogue, motives, and r…
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