Zalmoxis (also known as Zamolxis, or Zamolxes) is said to have been “a slave in Samos, his master being Pythagoras... after being freed and gaining great wealth, he returned to his own country. Now, the Thracians were a meanly-living and simple-witted folk, but this Zalmoxis knew Ionian usages and a fuller way of life than the Getae; for he has consorted with Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest Greek teachers, Pythagoras; wherefore he made himself a hall, where he entertained and feasted the chief among his countrymen and taught them that neither he nor his guests nor any of their descendants should ever die, but that they should go to a place where they would live for ever and have all good things. While he was doing as I have said and teaching his doctrine, he was all the while making him an underground chamber. When this was finished, he vanished from the sight of the Getae and descended into the underground chamber, where he lived for three years, the Getae wishing him back and mourning him for dead; then in the fourth year he appeared to the Getae, and thus they came to believe what Zalmoxis had told them.“ (Herodotus)   Strabo considered Zamolxis as one of Pythagoras' disciples, trained in mathematics, philosophy, astronomy and ethics. After his arrival in Dacia, Zamolxis became a civilising hero. Plato also cites him in "Charmides", one of his dialogues, as a god of psychotherapeutic medicine. As Socrates puts it: “Zamolxis teaches that you should not treat the eye before treating the mind, nor should you treat the mind before treating the body, and mostly you ought not to try treating the body if you won't take the soul into account; the reason that most diseases do not submit to Greek's medical art is that Greeks disconsider the whole that should be treated, and if the whole is ill, then the part cannot be sane either...“