The Music of Pythagoras (2008)
“530–500 B.C.
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE seventh decade of the sixth century B.C., a vessel with Pythagoras on board sailed across the waters west of Tarentum toward the toe of the Italian boot and the port city of Croton. The date is the best established in Pythagoras’ life. One of the most reliable of the earliest sources, Aristoxenus of Tarentum, gave it as 532/531 B.C.* Just short of a promontory where Croton’s men and women worshipped at their own sanctuary of the goddess Hera, the ship came i...nto harbor. The passengers disembarked at docks bustling with other voyagers, slaves, sailors, and craftsmen and laborers from the shipyards, for Croton was a major port and shipbuilding center in this region of the Mediterranean. Goods traded or transferred there came from up and down the coasts of the Italian peninsula, not only from the Greek cities but also from the Latin communities farther north and from numerous other regions of the Mediterranean.
There have been few archaeological excavations within the city of Croton proper.MoreLess
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE seventh decade of the sixth century B.C., a vessel with Pythagoras on board sailed across the waters west of Tarentum toward the toe of the Italian boot and the port city of Croton. The date is the best established in Pythagoras’ life. One of the most reliable of the earliest sources, Aristoxenus of Tarentum, gave it as 532/531 B.C.* Just short of a promontory where Croton’s men and women worshipped at their own sanctuary of the goddess Hera, the ship came i...nto harbor. The passengers disembarked at docks bustling with other voyagers, slaves, sailors, and craftsmen and laborers from the shipyards, for Croton was a major port and shipbuilding center in this region of the Mediterranean. Goods traded or transferred there came from up and down the coasts of the Italian peninsula, not only from the Greek cities but also from the Latin communities farther north and from numerous other regions of the Mediterranean.
There have been few archaeological excavations within the city of Croton proper.MoreLess
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