• Acted: 4th Century BC
  • Lived: 430-347 BC
  • School: Pythagorean
  • Main Interests: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Physics, Politics
  • Influences: Pythagoras, Plato
  • Location: Taranto

Quotes

Unwritten laws of the gods originated from malicious manners, inflicting a severe destiny on the disobedient, are the fathers of those laws which are written, and of the dogmas established by men.

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ARCHYTAS

Ιωάννου Στοβαίου Ανθολόγιον: ΜΓ, 129

So I support, that virtue is capable of leading people to the lack of misfortune and evil is capable to bring lack of bliss.

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ARCHYTAS

Ιωάννου Στοβαίου Ανθολόγιον: Α, 70

You should learn from others or invent yourself the things you know and understand, to be a scientist.

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ARCHYTAS

Ιωάννου Στοβαίου Ανθολόγιον: ΜΓ, 135

Logical thinking is a rule and an impediment for those who tend to be unjust. The people that carefully plan a crime often stop, because they are convinced that they will not be able to escape when they reach the point of committing the offense.

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ARCHYTAS

Ιωάννου Στοβαίου Ανθολόγιον: ΜΓ, 135

Biography

Archytas of Tarentum was an ancient Greek philosopher, scientist, major Pythagorean mathematician, statesman and friend of Plato. He was a member of the second generation of followers of Pythagoras. Archytas was considered to be the founder of mathematical mechanics and tried to combine empirical observation with Pythagorean theory.