A community-maintained tertiary reference on Pythagoreanism, directly examined. Its strength is a precise founding year and place for the Croton community and a named ancient source, Aristoxenus, for its purification practice; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a Presocratic studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesWikipedia's article on Pythagoreanism, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for Pythagoras's birth on Samos around 570 BCE, his departure around 530 BCE, and his founding of the first Pythagorean community at Croton around 530 BCE; the closed, merit-selected nature of early Pythagorean sects, whose home was known as the site of mysteries; and Aristoxenus's report that they used music for the purification of the soul.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism
Source Typereference
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This source names Pythagoreanism directly: "tertiary reference on Pythagoreanism, directly examined."
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Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)
This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Prayers, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Doctrines, 2 claims: 2 holds.
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