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Hera
Hera, Goddess of fertility was born on the banks of the river
Imvrassos on the southern part of Samos. Later on at the same
spot she married Zeus, and it is from this period that the Goddess
Hera became the protector of Samos Island. Many temples were built
to worship the Goddess of fertility, the early ones made from
wood, later replaced with larger stone structures. The last temple
to be built was under the rule of Polycrates, it was 52.5 meters
wide by 105 meters long and was one of the ancient wonders of
the world. Located in Heraion, only a single column, visible from
afar and a few column bases of rare beauty remain of this unrivaled
cult center of antiquity.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras, born around 580 BC first discovered that the unity
and harmony of the Universe is due to the existence of laws that
are expressed in arithmetic ratios. By his theorem 'the square
of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum
of the squares of its two perpendicular sides' he laid down the
foundations of trigonometry.
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