Monday 25 July 2011

Jaimee- Marathon and Pythagoras

I am researching Marathon and Pythagoras.





Marathon is a town in Greece. Marathon had a battle in 490BC and defeated Persians. Marathon, a town got named after Marathon meaning a race by Pheidippides a Greek runner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon,_Greece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon,_Greece

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. When he was young he had a teacher named Themistoclea who taught him the principles of ethics. Pythagoras was the first one to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom. he taught religion in the late 6th century.

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