Supposedly, this figure once bit a snake to death and had a golden thigh.
Supposedly, this figure once bit a snake to death and had a golden thigh. This figure could remember his four previous lives where he had spent time as Aethalides, Ephorbus, Hermotimus, and Pyrrhus the fisherman. He supposedly gained magical powers by sitting in a cave for many years, and he established a group who did not eat beans or allow the dead to be buried in wool, and saw perfection in the (*) pentagram. For 10 points, identify this figure who taught at Croton and was from Samos, who invented a philosophical system and named some theorem about the sides of right triangles.
Supposedly, this figure once bit a snake to death and had a golden thigh.
Pythagoras of Samos