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Later lives print the school as a faction in Croton’s civic conflict

Printed faction-school is not a 6th-century party register. In the causal graph this event strengthens Political Polarization, a driver that weakens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Iamblichus English makes Pythagoreans a civic party. Polarising club-politics is the path of low confidence on 6th-century facts, medium that the later story exists.

Context

Twin of Croton violence. This stores faction as printed.

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.

Why it matters

Printed faction-school is not a 6th-century party register.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pythagoras

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.22 · verified

    Named sage as heading of later school reports. Iamblichus, Euclid’s editors, and later math teachers publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLater lives print the school as a faction in Croton’s civic conflict
    2. strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
    3. weakensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 September 1905 · verified

    Printed faction-school is not a 6th-century party register.

    • Having a say in government

      via Political Polarization

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Political Polarization

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Cambridge Companion to Archaic GreeceCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPythagoras
  2. contributed toFactLater lives print the school as a faction in Croton’s civic conflict
  3. strengthensDriverPolitical Polarization
  4. weakensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Later lives print the school as a faction in Croton’s civic conflict. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/py-political-club-polarization

https://factrail.ai/facts/py-political-club-polarization

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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