person
Pythagoras
also: the Samian
Pythagoras of Samos, the sixth-century philosopher whose long discourse on flux, vegetarianism, and the transmigration of souls forms the doctrinal core of Book 15.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.3 Pythagoras
Pythagoras, the philosopher whom tradition made the teacher of King Numa; cited as a master who came to no harm from his royal pupil.
- Metamorphoses §15.473 Samian by birth
Pythagoras of Samos, whose discourse on change and the kinship of all life fills most of Book 15.
- Metamorphoses §15.473 Forbear, mortals
The opening of the philosopher's great sermon against eating flesh.
- Sorrows §3.3 Samian old man
Pythagoras of Samos, who taught the soul's survival and transmigration; if he is right, Ovid's shade will wander among barbarian ghosts.