# Modern accounts print the school as an elite male club in a wealthy colonial city

Date: 1999

## The fact

SEP/Britannica print Croton as a rich South-Italian city and the school as a select group. Elite closure is an inequality path of medium/low confidence.

## Context

Not a unique wealth Gini. A received club of the well-born as later told.

[Pythagoras](/people/pythagoras) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official encyclopedia, Loeb, or heritage pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Pythagoras (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

## Significance

Printed elite-school is not a 6th-century tax list.

Printed elite-school is not a 6th-century tax list.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Pythagoras: https://factrail.ai/people/pythagoras

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521822008
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/py-inequality-elite-club