DAMO

Damo is, according to tradition, after Mnisarchus and Tilauges, the third child of Pythagoras of Samos and Theanos of Krotonia. She was initiated into her father's teachings and philosophy from a young age. She herself taught the Pythagorean doctrines at the School of Croton.

After the dissolution of the School, Damo, to whom Pythagoras had entrusted his written works, with the explicit instruction not to disclose them to the uninitiated, as was the case with all of his teaching, fled to Athens.

Although, according to Diogenes Laertius, she could have sold them and made a considerable profit, she preferred poverty, considering her father's instructions more important than gold. Later, however, she only published Pythagoras' geometrical teachings with the help of Philolaus and Thymaridas.

This edition, as Iamblichus mentions, was entitled "History of Pythagoras". The use of the word history has to do with the fact that according to Iamblichus, Pythagoras called geometry history. According to Geminus, the construction of the regular tetrahedron and the construction of the cube are due to Damo.

Damo married a Pythagorean and had a daughter, Vitali.