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Recent scholarship has shown that no single methodology offers a satisfactory overall interpretation of Pythagoreanism. The conference "On Pythagoreanism," held in Brazil in 2011, brought together leading scholars in the field to address this issue. The articles collected in this volume il...
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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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| Summary: |
Recent scholarship has shown that no single methodology offers a satisfactory overall interpretation of Pythagoreanism. The conference "On Pythagoreanism," held in Brazil in 2011, brought together leading scholars in the field to address this issue. The articles collected in this volume illustrate the richness and diversity of Pythagoreanism and provide a unique multidisciplinary picture of the state of Pythagorean studies today. |
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1 online resource(xix,532pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110318500（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | B243 |
| CLC: | B502.14 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category: historical and methodological notes / Approaching Pythagoras of Samos: Ritual, Natural Philosophy and Politics / When Pythagoras was still Living in Samos (Heraclitus, frg. 129) / The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Pythagoreanism / Pythagoras Homericus: Performance as Hermeneutic Horizon to Interpret Pythagorean Tradition / Orphics and Pythagoreans: the Greek perspective / On the origin of the Orphic-Pythagorean notion of the immortality of the soul / Philolaus on Number / Archytas and the duplication of the cube / Plato and the Pythagoreans / Philolaus and Plato on method, measure and pleasure / Epicharmus and the plagiarism of Plato / Pythagorean Number Doctrine in the Academy / Early Pythagoreans in Aristotle s account / The Pythagorean Hypomnemata reported by Alexander Polyhistor in Diogenes Laertius (8.25 33): a proposal for reading / Eudorus of Alexandria and the Pythagorean pseudepigrapha / Pythagoreanism in late antique Philosophy, after Proclus / Ficino s Pythagoras / A modern approximation to Pythagoreanism: Boscovich s "point atomism" / Curricula -- Index of Topics -- Index locorum -- Index nominum. |