User:Mark/Comment/User:DavidM/Comment/5

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Topic: User:DavidM/Comment/5
  • Creator: Mark
  • Created: May 25, 2011 17:58



Comment

As told by Aristoxenus, and after him Cicero (De Offic. 3.45), Diodorus Siculus (10.4), and others, around the 4th century BC, Pythias and his friend Damon, both followers of the philosopher Pythagoras, traveled to Syracuse. Pythias was accused of plotting against the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius I. As punishment for this crime, Pythias was sentenced to death.

Accepting his sentence, Pythias ask



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