# Pythagoras — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers character guide

> Pythagoras in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** wise Pythagoras, Pherecydes of Pythagoras

**First appearance:** 0072-pythagoras

## Who they are

Pre-Socratic philosopher and mathematician, founder of Pythagoreanism.

## Links

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