He considered himself a reincarnation of Hermes and believed heavenly souls were trapped in a "body tomb".
This philosopher advocated the concept of  pathei mathos , or understanding from suffering. He considered himself a reincarnation of Hermes and believed heavenly souls were trapped in a "body tomb". This thinker discovered the musical intervals of lyre strings and posited that heavenly bodies produced imperceptible tones based on their orbital periods. His followers abstained from eating both (*) beans and flesh. One of his disciples threw himself into Mount Etna and was named Empedocles. He and his followers at Croton supposedly came up with a proof involving the square of a hypotenuse. For 10 points, name this pre-Socratic philosopher and namesake of a theorem regarding right triangles.
This philosopher advocated the concept of  pathei mathos , or understanding from suffering.
Pythagoras  of Samos