The Pythagoras Cup, Greece’s ancient “greedy cup,” offers a playful way to explore Greek wine, Samos, Santorini, history, tourism and the art of drinking well.

A simple science demo of the Pythagoras cup and how it works.

Anyone who has taken high-school math classes has heard of the Pythagorean theorem (even if you don’t remember exactly what it was). Most people also remember that it was named after Pythagoras, an ...

Can you imagine travelling across the ancient Roman empire on a steam engine while dribbling wine down your chest from a Pythagorean Cup? I never fail to be amazed by the ingenuity of the ancients. I ...

It seems like a simple wine cup, from the mind of one of the most famous Greek thinkers of all time. But this Pythagorean cup had an ingenious design to keep you from drinking too much wine.

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The cup's strongest travel connection begins with Samos, the eastern Aegean island closely associated with Pythagoras. Samos has all the ingredients of a compelling cultural wine destination—ancient ...

Pour wine into a Pythagoras Cup and everything seems normal, until you get greedy. Fill the ancient Greek vessel past its hidden line, and the cup does something no ordinary wine glass would dare: it ...