The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica suggests that 'the story has an air of mythical adaptation to the poet's habits'.

The poet, known for works in celebration of wine, choked to death on a grape stone according to Pliny the Elder. This story may have been fabricated by Neanthes of Cyzicus, on whom both Diogenes and Iamblichus rely as a source. Since cutting through the field would violate his own teachings, Pythagoras simply stopped running and was killed. Supposedly, he almost managed to outrun them, but he came to a bean field and refused to run through it, as he had prohibited beans as ritually unclean. Īncient sources disagree on how the Greek philosopher died, but one late and probably apocryphal legend reported by both Diogenes Laërtius, a third-century AD biographer of famous philosophers, and Iamblichus, a Neoplatonist philosopher, states that Pythagoras was murdered by his political enemies. The elderly woman who commissioned it had insisted on modeling for it. The Greek painter died of laughter at his portrait of the goddess Aphrodite. The Olympic champion wrestler's hands reportedly became trapped when he tried to split a tree apart he was then devoured by wolves (or, in later versions, lions). Since the opponent had conceded defeat, Arrhichion was proclaimed the victor posthumously. Held by his unidentified opponent in a stranglehold and unable to free himself, Arrhichion kicked his opponent, causing him so much pain from a foot/ankle injury that the opponent made the sign of defeat to the umpires, but at the same time broke Arrhichion's neck. The Greek pankratiast, caused his own death during the Olympic finals. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide.

One day, he arrived at the Assembly seeking help to defeat some brigands in the countryside, but with a knife still attached to his belt. Īccording to Diodorus Siculus, the Greek lawgiver from Sicily issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. The Athenian lawmaker was reportedly smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre in Aegina, Greece. The Egyptian pharaoh and unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt was carried off and then killed by a hippopotamus. Many of these stories are likely to be apocryphal.

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