Hermead: Pythagoras

Measurement Of Pythagoras - Pythagoras grows up on Samos then goes to Miletos to study at the new Monist school of Thales where he learns to look at the world as a measureable geometric construct. Thales sends him to Aigyptos where he attends a school of wisdom and learns geometry. Returning to Miletos, Pythagoras returns to Aigyptos where he is captured and sent to Babylon where he learns astronomy, then returns home to Miletos where he runs a small school, but war causes him to flee again. After meeting his mother in Delphoi, Pythagoras flees again to Krete where he is initiated into the Cult of Zeus, then leads a colony to Kroton in southern Italia where he establishes a school to teach geometry. After years of teaching, Pythagoras and his school is attacked, so he flees to a Temple of Apollon in Melapontion. Refusing to eat, Pythagoras commissions his daughter to establish the school of Druids, then dies of grief. Measurement Of Pythagoras has 8,552 lines of blank verse.