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  • Chapter 19 - Iamblichus’ On the Pythagorean Life in context

  • Edited by Carl A. Huffman, DePauw University, Indiana
  • Book:
    A History of Pythagoreanism
    Published online:
    05 May 2014
    Print publication:
    24 April 2014, pp 399-415

  • Summary

    Iamblichus' work On the Pythagorean Life (Vita Pythagorae (VP)) is the most extensive and richest source of information on Pythagoras and his school to have reached one from antiquity. True Platonism is Pythagoreanism, the true legacy of Plato is Pythagorean. To see this more clearly this chapter looks beyond On Pythagoreanism and considers other parts of Iamblichus' philosophical production. The chapter then comments briefly on each of the parts of On Pythagoreanism. It sketches the way in which Iamblichus constructed his patchwork, and also looks at the patches and at the materials used by Iamblichus in composing the VP. A considerable amount of work has been done in more recent studies on the compositional structure of Iamblichus' VP. The chapter summarizes some results of this research, with a view to dealing with the question as what the purpose might be that is intended by this compositional structure.