Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Pythagoras
- Chapter 2 Philolaus
- Chapter 3 Archytas
- Chapter 4 Sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century Pythagoreans
- Chapter 5 The Pythagorean society and politics
- Chapter 6 The Pythagorean way of life and Pythagorean ethics
- Chapter 7 Pythagoreans, Orphism and Greek religion
- Chapter 8 The problem of Pythagorean mathematics
- Chapter 9 Pythagorean harmonics
- Chapter 10 The Pythagoreans and Plato
- Chapter 11 Aristotle on the “so-called Pythagoreans”: from lore to principles
- Chapter 12 Pythagoreanism in the Academic tradition: the Early Academy to Numenius
- Chapter 13 The Peripatetics on the Pythagoreans
- Chapter 14 Pythagoras in the historical tradition: from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus
- Chapter 15 The pseudo-Pythagorean writings
- Chapter 16 Pythagoreans in Rome and Asia Minor around the turn of the common era
- Chapter 17 Diogenes Laertius’ Life of Pythagoras
- Chapter 18 Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras
- Chapter 19 Iamblichus’ On the Pythagorean Life in context
- Chapter 20 Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in late antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Chapter 21 Pythagoras in the Early Renaissance
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index locorum
- Greek index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Pythagoras
- Chapter 2 Philolaus
- Chapter 3 Archytas
- Chapter 4 Sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century Pythagoreans
- Chapter 5 The Pythagorean society and politics
- Chapter 6 The Pythagorean way of life and Pythagorean ethics
- Chapter 7 Pythagoreans, Orphism and Greek religion
- Chapter 8 The problem of Pythagorean mathematics
- Chapter 9 Pythagorean harmonics
- Chapter 10 The Pythagoreans and Plato
- Chapter 11 Aristotle on the “so-called Pythagoreans”: from lore to principles
- Chapter 12 Pythagoreanism in the Academic tradition: the Early Academy to Numenius
- Chapter 13 The Peripatetics on the Pythagoreans
- Chapter 14 Pythagoras in the historical tradition: from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus
- Chapter 15 The pseudo-Pythagorean writings
- Chapter 16 Pythagoreans in Rome and Asia Minor around the turn of the common era
- Chapter 17 Diogenes Laertius’ Life of Pythagoras
- Chapter 18 Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras
- Chapter 19 Iamblichus’ On the Pythagorean Life in context
- Chapter 20 Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in late antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Chapter 21 Pythagoras in the Early Renaissance
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index locorum
- Greek index
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- A History of Pythagoreanism , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014