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BBC - History - Pythagoras (c.580 BC - c.500 BC) (282 words) |
 | They had a number of taboos, including the avoidance of meat and beans, and lived by a series of rules governing all aspects of life. |
| In approximately 500 BC there appears to have been an uprising against the power of the Pythagoreans. |
| Pythagoras fled and is thought to have been killed or died shortly afterwards. |
| History of Vegetarianism - Pythagoras (?580-?500 BC) and the Pythagoreans (801 words) |
| The first prominent modern vegetarian was the Greek philosopher Pythagoras who lived towards the end of the 6th century BC. |
| Pythagorean ethics first became a philosophical morality between 490-430 BC with a desire to create a universal and absolute law including injunctions not to kill "living creatures," to abstain from "harsh-sounding bloodshed," in particular animal sacrifice, and "never to eat meat." |
| PYTHAGORAS (570-470 B.C.) Philosopher - mathematician - musician. |
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