# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lysis-of-taras
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:22:17.859Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lysis-of-taras"
name: "Lysis of Taras"
slug: "lysis-of-taras"
description: "Lysis of Taras was a Greek philosopher. His life is obscure. He was said to have been a friend and disciple of Pythagoras. After the persecution of the Pythagoreans at Croton and Metapontum in Magna Graecia he escaped and went to Thebes, where he became the teacher of Epaminondas, by whom he was held in the highest esteem. There are, however, serious chronological difficulties with his being both a disciple of Pythagoras and the teacher of Epaminondas. Some of the commentators and doxographers have failed to distinguish between the two different anti-pythagorean revolutions: the first one around ~500, when Pythagoras himself died, and the second one fifty years later. This could clarify the source of the chronological incoherence."
tagline: "Ancient Greek philosopher"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-347"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.06
  momentum:             1.598360655737705
  historical:           12.27642266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Liside"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "ليسيس اوف تاراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisis_(fil%C3%B2sof)"
    title: "Lisis (filòsof)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysis_(Pythagoreer)"
    title: "Lysis (Pythagoreer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82_(%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BB%CF%8C%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82)"
    title: "Λύσις (φιλόσοφος)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysis_of_Taras"
    title: "Lysis of Taras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisis_de_Tarento"
    title: "Lisis de Tarento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisis_Tarentokoa"
    title: "Lisis Tarentokoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysis_de_Tarente"
    title: "Lysis de Tarente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "ליסיס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarentumi_L%C3%BCszisz"
    title: "Tarentumi Lüszisz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liside"
    title: "Liside"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADsis_de_Tarento"
    title: "Lísis de Tarento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Лисид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysis_z_Tarentu"
    title: "Lysis z Tarentu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720939"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump