For the Pythagoras cult, this had a tragic aspect. Scholars dispute about the precise beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers, but agree that they included a mystical conviction that numbers ...

What do the golden belly hairs of the gods smell like? Beats me, but I do know that Pythagoras hated beans after reading “Meet Pythagoras: Mathematician, Philosopher, and Bean Hater,” an article from ...

Pythagoras (570-500 BC) was born on the island of Samos in what is now Greece. On the advice of Thales of Miletus, he travelled to Memphis in Egypt where he came into contact with priests renowned for ...