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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 26091712, member: 99456&quot;][ATTACH=full]1663059[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>Pythagoreans Celebrate the Sunrise</i> (1869) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Bronnikov" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Bronnikov" rel="nofollow">Fyodor Bronnikov</a> (1827–1902) in the <a href="https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru" rel="nofollow"><u>Tretyakov Gallery</u></a> in Moscow, Russia. Public Domain image via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bronnikov_gimnpifagoreizev.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bronnikov_gimnpifagoreizev.jpg" rel="nofollow"><u>Wikimedia Commons</u></a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This week, a visit to Calabria for a Stater from Bruttium, Kroton (modern Crotone).&nbsp; This unassuming lump of silver bears witness to the Pythagorean movement in Kroton and it&#039;s unusual incuse style - probably initiated by Metapontion or Sybaris - was popular for about a century before giving way to double relief coinage.&nbsp; Kroton would replace Sybaris as the local power ~511/510 BC with a dramatic tale of using the River Crati to destroy Sybaris.</p><p><a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-kroton-ar-stater" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-kroton-ar-stater" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH=full]1663058[/ATTACH]</a></p><p>Pythagoras or Samos or Rhegion is one of Kroton&#039;s best known residents.&nbsp; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>The longer story includes the note that the Pythagorean theorem isn&#039;t really Pythagorean at all - it predates him by over 1000 years.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-kroton-ar-stater" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-kroton-ar-stater" rel="nofollow">https://www.sullacoins.com/post/the-kroton-ar-stater</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Share history of this region, incuse coins, coins of Bruttium from any century, or anything else you find interesting or entertaining.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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