The name and legend of Pythagoras(5 B.C.) appear next in this account of early Greece. Pythagoras, a native of Samos, was a philosopher, a mathematician, and a religious mystic who spent much of his life in the Greek cities of Italy. A cult of ardent followers surrounded him, established an academy at Croton, and came to be known as Pythagoreans. Pythagoras himself became known as a religious prophet who advocated vegetarianism, taught immortality of man's soul, and declared that the union of man's soul with God took place by means of mathematics.