On Pythagoreanism / / ed. by Gabriele Cornelli, Richard McKirahan, Constantinos Macris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bernabé, Alberto,; Bonazzi, Mauro,; Bordoy, Francesc Casadesús,; Bossi, Beatriz,; Brisson, Luc,; Casertano, Giovanni,; Cornelli, Gabriele,; Fernandes, Edrisi,; Huffman, Carl,; Laks, André,; McKirahan, Richard,; Mota, Marcus,; O’Meara, Dominic,; Riedweg, Christoph,; Robinson, Thomas M.,; Rossetti, Livio,; Santoro, Fernando,; Thom, Johan C.,; Zhmud, Leonid,
• HerausgeberIn: Cornelli, Gabriele,; Macris, Constantinos,; McKirahan, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Praesocratica , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (532 p.)

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 exempli...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Historiography
• Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category: historical and methodological notes
• Approaching Pythagoras of Samos: Ritual, Natural Philosophy and Politics
• 2. Pythagoras and Early Pythagorean traditions
• 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
• 3. Fifth and Fourth Century Pythagoreanism
• Philolaus on Number
• Archytas and the duplication of the cube
• 4. Reception by Plato, Aristotle and the Early Academy
• 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
• 5. Hellenistic and Late Antique traditions
• 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
• 6. Pythagorean heritage in Renaissance and modern times
• Ficino’s Pythagoras
• A modern approximation to Pythagoreanism: Boscovich’s “point atomism”
• Curricula
• Index of Topics
• Index locorum
• Index nominum