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On Pythagoreanism
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ISBN: 9783110318456 Year: 2013 Volume: 5 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,


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Plato and Pythagoreanism
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ISBN: 9780199898220 0199898227 9780190465704 0190465700 0199345511 9780199345519 0199898235 1299690815 9780199898237 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. This book reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called 'mathematical' Pythagoreanism played a profound role in Plato's philosophy.

Archytas of Tarentum : Pythagorean, philosopher, and mathematician king
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ISBN: 0521837464 9780521837460 9780511482533 9780521169448 0511113412 9780511113413 0511112904 9780511112904 0511198515 9780511198519 0511482531 1280422246 9781280422249 9786610422241 6610422249 1107150361 0511181663 0511324340 0521169445 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Archytas of Tarentum is one of the three most important philosophers in the Pythagorean tradition, a prominent mathematician, who gave the first solution to the famous problem of doubling the cube, an important music theorist, and the leader of a powerful Greek city-state. He is famous for sending a trireme to rescue Plato from the clutches of the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius II, in 361 BC. This 2005 study was the first extensive enquiry into Archytas' work in any language. It contains original texts, English translations and a commentary for all the fragments of his writings and for all testimonia concerning his life and work. In addition there are introductory essays on Archytas' life and writings, his philosophy, and the question of authenticity. Carl A. Huffman presents an interpretation of Archytas' significance both for the Pythagorean tradition and also for fourth-century Greek thought, including the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.

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