Storiascopio · Era 5 of 12 · primary year 5
Pythagoras at Croton
about 530 BC · Croton (Crotone), Calabria (Italy)
In short
Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos and around 530 BC moved to Croton, in Calabria, where he founded a community of followers. The Pythagoreans believed that numbers were the key to understanding the whole universe, music included. They discovered, for example, that pleasant-sounding notes depend on simple ratios between the lengths of strings. The famous theorem named after him, though, was already known in other forms to the Babylonians.
Why it matters His school made mathematics a science to be studied, not just a tool for counting.
Source: Treccani, entry “Pitagora”
Where we are in the era “Ancient Greece”
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
about 800 BCEvent 8 of 25about 100 BC
Your turn
Name ______________________ Class ______ Date __________
When did it happen? Find the date at the top and write it here:
Tell it in your own words: what happened?
Draw the scene below.
storiascopio.com/en/event/pythagoras-at-croton/ · free worksheet, you may photocopy it for your class