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==Historical placement==

==Historical placement==

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]], of which the First 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]] (the First of which beginning 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).