Mnesarchus
Μνήσαρχος
(Μνήσαρχος).
1. The son of Euphron or Euthyphron, and father of Pythagoras. He was generally believed to be not of purely Greek origin. According to some accounts, he belonged to the Tyrrhenians of Lemnos and Imbros, and is said to have been an engraver of rings. (Clemens Alex. Strom. i. p. 300; Schol. ad Plat. Rep. p. 420, ed. Bekk.; D. L. 8.1; Porphyr. Vit. Pyth. 1, 2.) According to other accounts, the name of the father of Pythagoras was Marmacus, whose father Hippasus came from Phlius. (Paus. 2.13; D. L. 8.1.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.