On Pythagoreanism

Published by De Gruyter 2013

On Pythagoreanism

Edited by: Gabriele Cornelli , Richard McKirahan and Constantinos Macris

Volume 5 in the series Studia Praesocratica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110318500

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About this book

The purpose of the conference “On Pythagoreanism”, held in Brasilia in 2011, was to bring together leading scholars from all over the world to define the status quaestionis for the ever-increasing interest and research on Pythagoreanism in the 21st century. The papers included in this volume exemplify the variety of topics and approaches now being used to understand the polyhedral image of one of the most fascinating and long-lasting intellectual phenomena in Western history. Cornelli’s paper opens the volume by charting the course of Pythagorean studies over the past two centuries. The remaining contributions range chronologically from Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans of the archaic period (6th-5th centuries BCE) through the classical, hellenistic and late antique periods, to the eighteenth century. Thematically they treat the connections of Pythagoreanism with Orphism and religion, with mathematics, metaphysics and epistemology and with politics and the Pythagorean way of life.

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G. Cornelli, University of Brasília; R. McKirahan, Pomona College, Claremont CA; C. Macris, CNRS Paris.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Historiography
Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category: historical and methodological notes Gabriele Cornelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Approaching Pythagoras of Samos: Ritual, Natural Philosophy and Politics Christoph Riedweg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
2. Pythagoras and Early Pythagorean traditions
When Pythagoras was still Living in Samos (Heraclitus, frg. 129) Livio Rossetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Pythagoreanism Johan C. Thom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Pythagoras Homericus: Performance as Hermeneutic Horizon to Interpret Pythagorean Tradition Marcus Mota Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Orphics and Pythagoreans: the Greek perspective Alberto Bernabé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
On the origin of the Orphic-Pythagorean notion of the immortality of the soul Francesc Casadesús Bordoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
3. Fifth and Fourth Century Pythagoreanism
Philolaus on Number Richard McKirahan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Archytas and the duplication of the cube Luc Brisson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
4. Reception by Plato, Aristotle and the Early Academy
Plato and the Pythagoreans Carl Huffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Philolaus and Plato on method, measure and pleasure Beatriz Bossi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Epicharmus and the plagiarism of Plato Fernando Santoro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Pythagorean Number Doctrine in the Academy Leonid Zhmud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Early Pythagoreans in Aristotle’s account Giovanni Casertano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
5. Hellenistic and Late Antique traditions
The Pythagorean Hypomnemata reported by Alexander Polyhistor in Diogenes Laertius (8.25–33): a proposal for reading André Laks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Eudorus of Alexandria and the ‘Pythagorean’ pseudepigrapha Mauro Bonazzi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Pythagoreanism in late antique Philosophy, after Proclus Dominic O’Meara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
6. Pythagorean heritage in Renaissance and modern times
Ficino’s Pythagoras Thomas M. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
A modern approximation to Pythagoreanism: Boscovich’s “point atomism” Edrisi Fernandes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Curricula Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Index of Topics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
Index nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in ancient philosophy and Pythagoreanism.
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 532
Keywords: Pythagoras; Pythagoreanism; Presocratics

eBook

Published: October 29, 2013
ISBN: 9783110318500

Hardcover

Published: October 30, 2013
ISBN: 9783110318456