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Pythagoras bust (red)

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Pythagoras ( of Samos )  was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna, Graecia  and influenced the philosophies of Plato,  Aristotle,  and, through them, Western philosophy. Knowledge of his life is clouded by legend. He travelled to Croton, where he founded a school in which initiates were sworn to secrecy and lived a communal, ascetic lifestyle. This lifestyle entailed a number of dietary prohibitions, traditionally said to have included vegetarianism, although modern scholars doubt that he ever advocated for complete vegetarianism.