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The first Greek author whose birth and death dates are known is [[Solon]], who lived from 638 BC to 539 BC, so Solon and Pythagoras may have watched one or more of the 51st through the 60th [[Olympic Games]], which began in 776 BC, in the same audience.

The first Greek author whose birth and death dates are known is [[Solon]], who lived from 638 BC to 539 BC, so Solon and Pythagoras may have watched one or more of the 51st through the 60th [[Olympic Games]], which began in 776 BC, in the same audience.

Pythagoras would have been born on the island of Samos just a few years after the king of Babylon had finally crushed Judea (and began besieging Tyre), a fate from which God, by His wrath at Judea's scorn since sometime during the reign of Solomon in 970-931 BC, refused to spare them (2 Chron. 36:16).

Pythagoras would have been born on the island of [[Samos]] just a few years after the king of Babylon had finally crushed Judea (and began besieging Tyre), a fate from which God, by His wrath at Judea's scorn since sometime during the reign of Solomon in 970-931 BC, refused to spare them (2 Chron. 36:16).

So while to the Greeks Pythagoras lived during the very first phase of its history following their Dark Age after the Homeric and Hesiodic poets and during the [[Lelantine War]], by that point, history by year had already been well-established for centuries in Judea, making Pythagoras subject to the kind of historical analysis today that barely would have existed in Greece at the time.

So while to the Greeks Pythagoras lived during the very first phase of its history following their Dark Age after the Homeric and Hesiodic poets and during the [[Lelantine War]], by that point, history by year had already been well-established for centuries in Judea, making Pythagoras subject to the kind of historical analysis today that barely would have existed in Greece at the time.