Pausanias' Description of Greece

Pythagoras

Also known as: the Wise · Family: Rhegium · Role: descendant of Hippasus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 13

Book 2 · Chapter 13

  • parent: Mnesarchus “And the great grandson of this Hippasus was Pythagoras, surnamed the Wise: who was the son of Mnesarchus, the son of Euphron, the son of Hippasus.”
  • with Hippasus (Pythagoras was the great-grandson of Hippasus.) “And the great grandson of this Hippasus was Pythagoras, surnamed the Wise: who was the son of Mnesarchus, the son of Euphron, the son of Hippasus.”

Book 6 · Chapter 6

  • with Euthymus (Pythagoras made Euthymus's statue.) “And his statue is by Pythagoras and is especially fine”
  • with Protolaus (interaction) “the first is the Mantinean Protolaus, the son of Dialces, who beat all the boys in boxing, by Pythagoras of Rhegium”

Book 6 · Chapter 7

  • with Dromeus (Pythagoras made the statue of Dromeus.) “His statue is by Pythagoras, and the next to it is that of Pythocles of Elis, who won in the pentathlum, by Polycletus.”

Book 6 · Chapter 13

  • with Astylus of Croton (Pythagoras made the statue of Astylus.) “And the statue of Astylus of Croton is by Pythagoras, he was victorious”
  • with Mnaseas (Pythagoras made the statue of Mnaseas.) “And next to Bycelus is the hoplite Mnaseas of Cyrene, surnamed Libyan, by Pythagoras of Rhegium.”

Book 6 · Chapter 15

  • child: Caprus “two statues of Caprus of Elis, the son of Pythagoras”

Book 6 · Chapter 18

  • with Cratisthenes (Pythagoras made the votive offerings to Cratisthenes.) “And these votive offerings to him at Olympia are by Pythagoras of Rhegium.”

Book 9 · Chapter 13

  • pupil: Lysis (mentor->pupil) “Lysis the Tarentine, who had been a pupil of Pythagoras of Samos.”

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