The name of the ancient Greek scientist Pythagoras is known to everyone from the school bench. But the proof of the famous theorem about the square of the hypotenuse and the sum of the squares of the legs is only a small of the much that this amazing person gave the world. The thinker and philosopher (by the way, was the first to introduce the words “philosopher” and “philosophy”), a religious figure who developed the doctrine of “metempsiosis” – the resettlement of souls, mystic and the prophet, whom the students were seriously perceived as a god or demigod, he was one of the largest leaders of the Greek “intellectual revolution”. But in the course of this revolution, in fact, the foundation was created on which our civilization is still based. On the fate of Pythagoras and the teachings created by him, as well as about Greece of his time – VI century BC. e .. the end of the so -called archaic era, ”says Igor Surikov, a recognized connoisseur of ancient history and philosophy in his new book.
Author
Surikov Igor Evgenievich
Editor
Karpov A. Yu.
Publisher
Young Guard, 2013
Series
The life of wonderful people
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