Abstract

This is a review of Leonid Zhmud, Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im frühen Pythagoreismus. Berlin 1997. I strengthen Zhmud's intention to allow Pythagoras a place in early Greek science as against the religious figure Pythagoras is given in Burkert's influential study "Lore and Science". I stress Pythagoras' Samian background, Samos was after all an influential intellectual and technological center in Pythagoras' time.