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But as Burkert[1] (1972) pointed out, this latter detail may have been invented to explain away the embarrassing association of later Pythagoreans with tyrants, from Croton to Syracuse and the Athenian oligarchy which ruled brutally. (Most of the Seven Sages were tyrants. Such was the mentality of the archaic Greeks.)

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  1. Walter Burkert,Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1972).