Pythagoreans Celebrate the Sunrise (1869) by Fyodor Bronnikov (1827–1902) in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia. Public Domain image via Wikimedia Commons. This week, a visit to Calabria for a Stater from Bruttium, Kroton (modern Crotone). This unassuming lump of silver bears witness to the Pythagorean movement in Kroton and it's unusual incuse style - probably initiated by Metapontion or Sybaris - was popular for about a century before giving way to double relief coinage. Kroton would replace Sybaris as the local power ~511/510 BC with a dramatic tale of using the River Crati to destroy Sybaris. Pythagoras or Samos or Rhegion is one of Kroton's best known residents. He is an interesting character with a mix of mathematics, and philosophy that advanced ideas of harmony, the soul, and cosmic order, influencing thinkers such as Plato. The longer story includes the note that the Pythagorean theorem isn't really Pythagorean at all - it predates him by over 1000 years. https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-kroton-ar-stater Share history of this region, incuse coins, coins of Bruttium from any century, or anything else you find interesting or entertaining.
