The attempt of the Pythagoreans to reshape society in Croton, Magna Graecia, through politics led to public backlash and ...

Pythagoras, a Greek polymath and thinker, shaped history with his mathematical and philosophical ideas. He believed numbers ...

Pythagoras held that there are three sorts of men, just as there are three classes of strangers who go to the Olympic games. There are the lovers of gain who come to buy and sell, the lovers of honour ...

Can a line from ancient Greece still tell us something useful about living longer today? A popular saying attributed to Pythagoras suggests that if you want a long life, you should keep “a little old ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Philosopher Bertrand Russell believed that the way we understand our world fundamentally shapes the way that we live our lives. Thus, an anarchist lives a very different sort of life than, say, an ...