Pythagoras the Spartan information

Pythagoras, or Pythagoras the Spartan (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας), was a mercenary Greek admiral hired to command the first fleet of Cyrus the Younger...

35 triremes under Pythagoras the Spartan and 25 triremes under Tamos the Egyptian, as well as 20,000 Persian troops under Ariaeus the Persian. (Although...

Pythagoras of Samos (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος, romanized: Pythagóras ho Sámios, lit. 'Pythagoras the Samian', or simply Πυθαγόρας; Πυθαγόρης...

which were essential to Spartan defense and culture. Pythagoras was one of many Greek philosophers. He lived his life on the island Samos and is known...

wrote that the Pythagoras of Sparta, who was Olympic victor in the foot-race, helped Numa arrange the government of the city and many Spartan customs introduced...

the 6th century BC, based on and around the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans. Pythagoras established the first...

and danger of the war; a Spartan fleet of 35 triremes under the command of Pythagoras the Spartan sent to Cilicia opened the passes of the Amanus into Syria...

Mockler, Anthony. The Mercenaries: The Men Who Fight for Profit – from the Free Companies of Feudal France to the White Adventurers in the Congo. Macmillan...

the Spartans managed to hold off the Roman assaults for three days before Nabis, seeing that the situation was hopeless, decided to send Pythagoras with...

diaulos and the dolichos four years earlier. According to Plutarch, Pythagoras later met the Roman king Numa Pompilius to introduce some Spartan influence...

teacher of Pythagoras Clearchus of Sparta – general, son of Rhampias Clearchus of Soli – author, pupil of Aristotle Clearidas (general) – Spartan general...

may have been delivered to Lycurgus, the semi-legendary Spartan lawgiver (fl. 8th century BC). According to the report by Herodotus (Histories A.65, 2–4)...

increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the Spartan and then Theban hegemonies;...

the satrapy of Caria. Darius II also gives Cyrus funds to re-create the Spartan fleet and sends him to Sardis with instructions to increase Persian support...

formed the elite force of the Theban army in the 4th century BC, ending Spartan domination. However, historian David D. Leitao did claim that the Sacred...

married to Apia's brother, Pythagoras. There was also a failed attempt to marry their sons to daughters of Philip V of Macedon. The only known name of Apia...

Vogel, Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism (1966), pp. 97–102, and C. Riedweg, Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, And Influence (2005), p. 92. "...the subject...

displaced by Spartan hegemony during the early 4th century BC, before power shifted to Thebes and the Boeotian League and finally to the League of Corinth...

in the Bible Hicks, R.D. (1972). "PYTHAGORAS (c. 582-500 B.C.)". Diogenes Laertius. Rendel Harris, J. (Oct 1906). "The Cretans always liars". The Expositor...

ancient Greece. Pythagoras in particular believed that music was subject to the same mathematical laws of harmony as the mechanics of the cosmos, evolving...

their Spartan parents and each other during childhood due to a prophecy delivered by the Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi. Through their mother Myrrine, the siblings...

states that Ares "typified the traditional Spartan character", but had no important cult in Sparta; and he never occurs on Spartan coins. Pausanias gives...

mathematician-philosopher Pythagoras amongst other famous citizens, and one of the most important centres of Magna Graecia. It was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages...

solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He was decisively influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides...

this estimate is based on a reading of Diodorus' Spartan king lists and Pausanias' description of the war). 756 Kyzikus is settled by Ionians 754 Polydorus...

Callicratidas, a Spartan general who died at the Battle of Arginusae. If so, this would make Phintys a Spartan, and date her birth to the late fifth century...