Kevin Guilfoile is the author of Cast of Shadows and has written for McSweeney's, Salon, and the New Republic.
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In 500 BC, a mysterious ship appeared off the coast of what is now Italy. A man disembarked to address the frightened crowd along the shore. He called himself Pythagoras, and when he was done speaking, a thousand men and women abandoned their lives to fol... SEE MORE