Pythagoras

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined by Professor Edith Hall and comedian Desiree Burch to learn all about ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras. Pythagoras is famous in maths classes everywhere for his triangle theorem, but surprisingly little is known about his actual life, and his theorem was actually invented by Babylonian mathematicians centuries before he was born! Taking in his beliefs about reincarnation, his possible divine parentage, and the cult he might have started, this episode explores the myths and legends that grew up in the ancient world about Pythagoras’s life in the centuries after his death.

Research by: Josh Rice Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse

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0:00.0	I love you and would kill before I would see you taken from me.
0:06.0	Lady Killers is back.
0:08.0	Join me Lucy Worsley to investigate infamous female criminals from the past.
0:13.2	It's really important that we listen to these voices about the society in which they lived.
0:18.0	We're seeking to understand these women from the perspective of 21st century feminists.
0:23.0	We cannot put women into history on the basis of likeability.
0:26.0	Put all the women back, the sinners and the saints.
0:29.0	Lady Killers, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:33.0	BBC Sounds.
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0:38.0	Hello and welcome to Your Dead to Me,
0:41.0	the Radio 4 Comedy Podcast that takes history seriously.
0:44.0	My name is Greg Jenner. I'm a public historian author and broadcaster.
0:47.2	And today we are packing our pencil cases and protractors and hopping aboard the school bus
0:51.9	back to ancient Greece for a math lesson with Mr. Triangle himself.
0:55.6	No, not the rock, Pythagoras. And to help us square our hypotenuses, whatever that is,
1:00.9	we have two very special guests in History Corner.
1:04.0	She's a professor of classics at Durham University and a fellow of the British Academy.
1:08.0	She researches class, ethnicity, and gender in classical texts, is an expert on ancient Greek theater and philosophy. You might have read one of her many excellent books or heard on any number of brilliant radio for programs including Natalie Hayne stands up for the classics and great lives is Professor Edith Hall. Welcome Edith!
1:23.2	I'm absolutely thrilled to be here to triangulate with you too.
1:27.0	Oh, a lovely joke.
1:28.7	Look at that.
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