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The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations. This observation directs this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological approach, setting out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism s image.
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studia praesocratica;
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The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations. This observation directs this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological approach, setting out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism s image. |
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1 online resource(xiv,228pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110306507（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | B243 |
| CLC: | B502.14 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley -- 2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category -- 3 Immortality of the soul and metemps ch sis -- 4 Numbers -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Topics -- Index of Passages -- Index of Names. |