Pythagoras of Samos - 570–495 BC - Ancient Greek Philosopher and Mathematician - Immortality of the Soul - Aged Alabaster Statue

Item Specifics

Quote : “Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”

Condition: New, Handmade in Greece
Height: 18 cm(7")
Width: 5.5 cm(2.1")
Weight: 250g
Material: Alabaster

Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. Pythagoras best known in the modern day for the Pythagorean Theorem is often referred as the first pure mathematician. His teachings emphasized in immortality and metempsychosis, or the "transmigration of souls", which holds that every soul is immortal and, upon death, enters into a new body.