| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studia Praesocratica
|
|
Studia praesocratica.
|
| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley; 1.1 Zeller: the skepticism of the beginnings; 1.2 Diels: a Zellerian collection; 1.3 Rohde: the reaction to skepticism; 1.4 Burnet: the double teaching of acousmatics and mathematicians; 1.5 Cornford and Guthrie: in search of unity between science and religion; 1.6 From Delatte to De Vogel: Pythagoreanism and politics; 1.7 Aristotle's unique testimony and the uncertain Academic tradition; 1.8 From Burkert to Kingsley: the third way and mysticism in the Pythagorean tradition. |
|
1.9 Conclusion2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category; 2.1 Interpreting interpretations: diachronic and synchronic dimensions; 2.2 Pythagorean identity; 2.3 The Pythagorean koinōnía; 2.4 Acousmatics and mathematicians; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 Immortality of the soul and metempsýchosis; 3.1 "Is it the soul?" (Xenophanes); 3.2 "Wiser than all" (Heraclitus and Ion of Chios); 3.3 "Ten or twenty human generations" (Empedocles); 3.4 Plato and Orphism; 3.4.1 "Understanding the logos of their ministry"; 3.4.2 Hierarchy of incarnations; 3.4.3 Sôma-sêma; 3.4.4 Pythagorean mediation. |
|
3.5 Herodotus, Isocrates and Egypt3.6 Legends on immortality; 3.7 A Pythagorean Democritus?; 3.8 Aristotle and the Pythagorean myths; 3.9 Conclusion; 4 Numbers; 4.1 All is number?; 4.1.1 Three versions of the Pythagorean doctrine of numbers; 4.1.2 Two solutions; 4.1.3 The Philolaic solution; 4.1.3.1 One book or three books?; 4.1.3.2 Authenticity of Philolaus' fragments; 4.1.3.3 The Doric pseudo-epigraphic tradition; 4.1.4 The Aristotelian exception (Met. A 6, 987b); 4.1.5 The Platonic testimony (Phlb. 16c-23c); 4.2 The fragments of Philolaus; 4.2.1 Unlimited/limiting. |
|
4.2.2 The role of numbers in Philolaus4.3 Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Index of Topics; Index of Passages; Index of Names. |
| Summary |
The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations. This observation directs this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological approach, setting out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism's image. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pythagoras.
|
|
Pythagoras. |
|
Pythagoras. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Cornelli, Gabriele. In Search of Pythagoreanism : Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category. Berlin : De Gruyter, ©2013 9783110306279 |
| ISBN |
9783110306507 (electronic book) |
|
3110306506 (electronic book) |
|
9783110306279 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
|
3110306271 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
|
9781299723504 (MyiLibrary) |
|
1299723500 (MyiLibrary) |
|
