Archytas of Tarentum

Archytas of Tarentum (428 BC - 345 BC) was a famous Greek statesman, soldier, geometrician, and philosopher from the ancient city of Taras (Tarentum) in Southern Italy. He was a Pythagorean in philosophy, and influential in that capacity over the minds of Plato, his contemporary, and Aristotle. He was drowned in the Adriatic Sea. His body lay unburied on the shore till a sailor humanely cast a handful of sand on it, otherwise he would have had to wander on this side the Styx for a hundred years, such the virtue of a little dust, 'munera pulveris', as Horace calls it.

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