The Samos Island
Samos Island, North Aegean, Hellas (Greece) Samos (Hellenic: Ξ£Ξ¬ΞΌΞΏΟ [Λsamos]) is a Hellenic island in the eastern Aegean Sea. Strabo derived the name from the Phoenician word sama meaning “high”. Samos is the birthplace of the Hellenic philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, after whom the Pythagorean theorem is named, the philosophers Melissus of Samos and Epicurus, … Continue reading The Samos Island
