Source: Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Mago the Carthaginian Philosopher 🇹🇳

ماجو الفيلسوف القرطاجي (Known as "Mago the Philosopher")
Pythagorean Philosopher of Carthage
Born c. 300 BC 🇹🇳 Carthage, Tunisia
Passed Away c. 240 BC Carthage, Tunisia
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"Numbers and stars speak across tongues, revealing the single divine architect of worlds."

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Carthaginian philosopher cited by Diogenes Laertius who engaged with Greek Pythagorean mathematics and metaphysics, demonstrating the rich intellectual syncretism of Hellenistic Carthage.

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Mago was an elite Carthaginian philosopher of the 3rd century BC. Traveling extensively between Carthage, Syracuse, and Tarentum, he immersed himself in Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy, writing commentaries reconciling Phoenician cosmological doctrines with Greek mathematical metaphysics.

His lost philosophical treatises were referenced by later Hellenistic scholars as proof that Punic civilization cultivated high abstract philosophy alongside commerce and military science.

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Byrsa Western Slope
Carthage, Tunisia
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