[thrownblown]

11. Eratosthenes, Olympic Victors 3rd century via Favorinus, Varied History, via Diogenes Laertius, Lives 8.47 “Eratosthenes (according to what Favorinus reports in book eight of his Varied History), said this man [sc. Pythagoras] was the first to box using technique, in the 48th Olympiad, letting his hair grow long and wearing a purple robe; after being excluded from the boys’ games and jeered at, he immediately joined the mens’, and won.” Olympiad 48: 588 to 584 BCE cf. Eusebius, Chronography, p. 93 Karst

[magicalist]

According to wikipedia, at least, that's a different Pythagoras of Samos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_(boxer)

[dr_dshiv]

The reference I gave gives a good reason why it isn’t a different Pythagoras… but, always hard to know for sure…

But I tend to think that Pythagoras had an even more incredible life than the legends.

[dr_dshiv]

“was the first to box using technique”

Clearly Pythagoras would have sick martial arts moves, if they’d ever make a movie about him.