Biography of Pythagoras Birth Place: Samos Time: 1st year of the 50th Olympiad (580 BC) Parents Father: Mnesarchus Mother: Pythais Siblings Eunomus, Tyrrhenus (both older than Pythagoras) Family Occupation His father was an engraver (goldsmith). Financial Status Wealthy Family Life Wife: Theano (daughter of Brontinus of Croton) Children: He had a daughter, Damo, and a son, Telauges. Teachers Pherecydes, Hermodamas Travels As a youth with a great thirst for knowledge, he traveled to all the major...

Biography of Socrates Birth Place: Athens Time: 6th day of the month Thargelion (the birthday of Artemis), during the term of Eponymous Archon Apsephion; specifically, the 4th year of the 77th Olympiad (April 29, 469 BC). Deme (District) Alopeke. This district belonged to the Antiochis tribe, in the Urban Trittys. Regarding its location, Aeschines mentions in Against Timarchus [99] that Alopeke was eleven or twelve stadia outside the city wall. Researchers place it between the demes of Kynosarges and Phaleron—the area covered today by Daphne, Nea Smyrni, and possibly...

Biography of Plato Birth Place: Athens or Aegina Time: 7th day of the month Thargelion (the birthday of Apollo), during the term of Eponymous Archon Ameinias; specifically, the 2nd year of the 88th Olympiad (April 30, 427 BC). Identity Deme: Collytus Tribe: Aegeïs Parents Father: Ariston Mother: Perictione Siblings Adeimantus, Glaucon (older) and Potone (younger). Financial Status Wealthy Real Name Aristocles. "Plato" was a nickname given to him either for the breadth of his interpretations, his wide forehead, his...

Biography of Aristotle Birth Place: Stagira, Chalcidice Time: During the 1st year of the 99th Olympiad (384 BC) Family Father: Nicomachus, from Stagira, Chalcidice Mother: Phaestis, from Chalcis, Euboea Spouse: Pythias (deceased early), Herpyllis Children: Pythias (daughter, by Pythias) and Nicomachus (son, by Herpyllis) Financial Status Wealthy Family Background Aristotle’s father served as a physician at the court of King Amyntas III of Macedon (the father of Philip and grandfather of Alexander). Aristotle was orphaned of both mother...