Philolaus biography for kids

Philolaus (circa 480 BC - circa 405 BC), was a Greekmathematician and philosopher.

A classic philologistAugust Boeckh[?] (1785-1867) places his life between the 70th and 95th Olympiads (496 BC-396 BC).

Philolaus was a contemporary of Socrates and Democritus, but senior to them, and was probably somewhat junior to Empedocles, and a comtemporary of Zeno of Elea, Melissus[?] and Thucydides, so that his birth may be placed at about 480 BC.

Philolaus was probably born in Croton (after a Greek historian Diogenes Laërtius) or in Tarentum or Heraclea[?].

Philolaus biography for kids

He lived around 475 BC and he was in Croton during the persecution of the Pythagoreans.

He was said to have been intimate with Democritus, and was probably one of his teachers. He was an immediate pupil and transcriber of Pythagoras and after the death of his teacher great dissentions prevailed in the cities of lower Italy.

According to some accounts, Philolaus, obliged to flee, took refuge first in Lucania[?] and th