Why did Pythagoras starve himself to death?

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anonymous · Answer

@TheSmartOne

anonymous · Answer

As for Pythagoras' death, there are two theories. They agree that around 500 BC, there was an uprising against the Pythagoreans and the city of Croton was pillaged and burned. Pythagoras fled and was either caught and killed by rebels when he refused to cross a bean field, or managed to make his way to Metapontum (on the coast of Italy), where he took refuge in the Temple of the Muses and eventually died of starvation.

anonymous · Answer

:( What do you think? Do you think he was a fraud, and never did create the Pythagorean Theorem?

anonymous · Answer

@xNightwolfx ?

anonymous · Answer

He created the theorem, and no I don't think he was a fraud :)

anonymous · Answer

:)

thesmartone · Answer

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/pythagoras-504.php "According to certain historical accounts Pythagoras died along with his disciples in the temple, while some other evidences suggest that he fled to Tarentum and then to Metapontum, where he starved himself to death."