Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans : a brief history / Charles H. Kahn
- Author
- Kahn, Charles H.
- Published
- Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Pub., [2001]
- Copyright Date
- ©2001
- Physical Description
- xi, 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Contents
- The Pythagorean Question -- Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Way of Life -- Pythagorean Philosophy before Plato -- Pythagorean Philosophy in the Time of Archytas and Plato -- The New Pythagorean Philosophy in the Early Academy -- The Survival of Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age -- The Pythagorean Tradition in Rome -- The Neopythagorean Philosophers -- The Pythagorean Heritage -- The Pythagorean Tradition of the Occult and the Supernatural -- Transmigration and Vegetarianism -- Mathematics, Music, and Astronomy.
- Summary
- This portrait of the Pythagorean tradition includes an account of the neo-Pythagorean revival and ends with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0872205754 (pbk.)
9780872205758 (pbk.)
0872205762 (cloth)
9780872205765 (cloth) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and indexes.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Gift of the Tombros Libraries Endowment in Classics ; 2011.
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