The story of Pythagoras is one of innovation, change, determination and sheer genius. As an accurate picture of his life emerges, it is clear that there was more to this great man than one single, simple truth — here was a great mathematician, philosopher and political leader.
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Greeks are the fathers of all arts and sciences Please study the picture!
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“This place was the center of a great civilization” This is the way that poet Giannis Ritsos characterizes the island of Samos. Samos, an island of the north-eastern Aegean, lies east of the Ikarian Sea, has an area of 470 square miles and a coastline of about 79 miles. The name Samos …
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Despite the fact that the island is located close to Turkey and is a long distance from Athens, the people of Samos were among the first to take an active part in the struggle against the Turkish rule. By regularly raiding the coasts of Asia Minor they made intense decoy …
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Polycrates: powerful tyrant of Samos between 540 and 522 BCE. His downfall shocked the Greek world. Samos is a Greek island, situated just off the Asian coast, close to Miletus. This was a Greek city too, but it belonged, like the other towns of Asia Minor, to the realm of …
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“Antreas Kopasis was wounded nearby the Royal Palace in front of the Turkish guards and the regretful eyes of his exqisite partners Th. Anezinis, A. Alexandrou, Her. Thalassinos and the two Deputies, whom Nemesis had forced to see the end of the tyrants, the despots and the unconscious offenders of …
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The island of Samos prospered during the reign of the Tyrant Polycratis around 550 B.C. According to Herodotus Samos became “first among Greeks and Barbarians”. Polycratis with the aid of his two brothers succeeded in becoming Tyrant although later, by eliminating even his own brothers who had helped him managed to build …
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Throughout the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century until 1922 the people of Samos maintained strong ties with Asia Minor. Following persecutions of the Greek population of Asia Minor, many refuges settled on the island contributing to the formation of its social character during the inter-war era. …
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