Attributing Pythagorean views to Epicharmus depends almost entirely on these pseudepigraphical texts, making the classification an artifact of ancient literary fraud rather than historical fact.

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Artifact of ancient literary fraud(as used in historical methodology): Something that exists or seems true only because of deliberate deception in old texts, rather than because it reflects what actually happened.
Epicharmus(as a historical philosopher): An ancient Greek playwright and philosopher from Sicily (around 500 BCE) whose writings survived only in fragments, making it hard to know exactly what he really believed.
Pseudepigraphical texts(as used in historical research): Ancient writings that claim to be written by a famous person (like a philosopher) but were actually written by someone else, either as a hoax or a way to give the work more authority.
Pythagorean views(as used in ancient philosophy): The ideas and beliefs associated with Pythagoras, an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician best known for the Pythagorean theorem (about right triangles). Pythagorean philosophy also covered ideas about numbers, the soul, and how to live a good life.

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