# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ecphantus-the-pythagorean
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:03:14.409Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ecphantus-the-pythagorean"
name: "Ecphantus the Pythagorean"
slug: "ecphantus-the-pythagorean"
description: "Ecphantus or Ecphantos or Ephantus (Έφαντος) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher. He is identified as a Pythagorean of the 4th century BC from Syracuse, Magna Graecia, but the details concerning his life are historically obscure; he may have not been a historical person, but rather a fictional character invented by Heraclides of Pontus for use in his philosophical dialogues. He also may have been the same figure as the attested Ecphantus of Croton. Ecphantus was also of Syracuse. He developed a theory about constellations moving."
tagline: "4th-century BC astronomer, philosopher and mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ecfanto.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
deathDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             10.5
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecfant_de_Siracusa"
    title: "Ecfant de Siracusa"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekphantos"
    title: "Ekphantos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Έκφαντος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ecphantus the Pythagorean"
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    title: "Ekfantos"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecfanto"
    title: "Ecfanto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اکفانتوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecphantos"
    title: "Ecphantos"
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    title: "אקפנטוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ekphantosz (filozófus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecfanto_di_Siracusa"
    title: "Ecfanto di Siracusa"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ekfantos zo Syrakúz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ekfant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump