Pythagorean traditions · c. 570–495 BCE

Pythagoras

Seek an ordered, shared life.

Samos · Croton · southern Italy

Portraits: artistic interpretations

Reading guides

A thread to guide your reading.

Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.

Arrange sources to understand what can be attributed to Pythagoras.

Explore community through Iamblichus’ late portrait.

Understand a moral poem without wrongly attributing it to the founder.