Re:How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number
by thrownblown on Friday June 21, 2024 @04:58PM
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11. Eratosthenes, Olympic Victors 3rd century
via Favorinus, Varied History, via Diogenes Laertius, Lives 8.47
“Eratosthenes (according to what Favorinus reports in book eight of his
Varied History), said this man [sc. Pythagoras] was the first to box using
technique, in the 48th Olympiad, letting his hair grow long and wearing
a purple robe; after being excluded from the boys’ games and jeered at,
he immediately joined the mens’, and won.”
Olympiad 48: 588 to 584 BCE cf. Eusebius, Chronography, p. 93
Karst
Re:How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number
by dr_dshiv on Friday June 21, 2024 @07:17PM
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“was the first to box using technique”
Clearly Pythagoras would have sick martial arts moves, if they’d ever make a movie about him.
Re:How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number
by magicalist on Friday June 21, 2024 @05:28PM
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According to wikipedia, at least, that's a different Pythagoras of Samos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_(boxer)
I searched for "long hair" and found only this:
>The man with long hair at Samos’: They say there was a Samian boxer with long hair who went to Olympia and won after being mocked by his opponents for looking like a woman; he became proverbial. Eratosthenes says that Pythagoras of Samos won with long hair during the 48 th Olympiad; Duris represents this as Pythagoras being excluded, challenging the men, and beating many of them.
Like many stories concerning Pythagoras, I wonder if this was some local fable onto which his name later became plastered.