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Offline JBF

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Pythagoras of Samos, Celator 2.0
« on: June 10, 2019, 10:50:58 pm »
A reworked and expanded version of my article, _Pythagoras of Samos, Celator_, has been posted on academia.edu on my page (John Francisco).  Like the original which was published in the Celator, this article deals with the literary sources supporting the claim that Pythagoras of Samos, better known as a philosopher-mathematician, was trained in the family business of celature.  Pythagoras father, Mnesarchus was a seal engraver, (daktylglyphos, literally "finger-ring engraver") according to Diogenes Laertius.  this may sound strange to some people, but we should note that Pythagoras ended up as a philosopher-mathematician, but that is not where he started.  He started making silver flagons for the priests of Egypt when he went there.  Of course, the silver flagons were not the only thing he did, but eventually he convinced them to teach him their knowledge.  However, he never gave up on celature, but introduced to the Achaean city-states of Magna Graecia the incuse coinage.  Other essays on my page discuss the incuse coinage, currently I am working on revising them, the first however, is the article Pythagoras of Samos, Celator 2.0.  The original, however, is still on the page, I will probably mark it as superseded by the new version.

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John Francisco,
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Re: Pythagoras of Samos, Celator 2.0
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2019, 11:49:01 pm »
Thanks John, I look forward to reading it.

 

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