Plato and the Pythagoreans

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. 1. Historiography
5. Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category: historical and methodological notes 3
6. Approaching Pythagoras of Samos: Ritual, Natural Philosophy and Politics 47
7. 2. Pythagoras and Early Pythagorean traditions
8. When Pythagoras was still Living in Samos (Heraclitus, frg. 129) 63
9. The Pythagorean Akousmata and Early Pythagoreanism 77
10. Pythagoras Homericus: Performance as Hermeneutic Horizon to Interpret Pythagorean Tradition 103
11. Orphics and Pythagoreans: the Greek perspective 117
12. On the origin of the Orphic-Pythagorean notion of the immortality of the soul 153
13. 3. Fifth and Fourth Century Pythagoreanism
14. Philolaus on Number 179
15. Archytas and the duplication of the cube 203
16. 4. Reception by Plato, Aristotle and the Early Academy
17. Plato and the Pythagoreans 237
18. Philolaus and Plato on method, measure and pleasure 271
19. Epicharmus and the plagiarism of Plato 307
20. Pythagorean Number Doctrine in the Academy 323
21. Early Pythagoreans in Aristotle’s account 345
22. 5. Hellenistic and Late Antique traditions
23. The Pythagorean Hypomnemata reported by Alexander Polyhistor in Diogenes Laertius (8.25–33): a proposal for reading 371
24. Eudorus of Alexandria and the ‘Pythagorean’ pseudepigrapha 385
25. Pythagoreanism in late antique Philosophy, after Proclus 405
26. 6. Pythagorean heritage in Renaissance and modern times
27. Ficino’s Pythagoras 423
28. A modern approximation to Pythagoreanism: Boscovich’s “point atomism” 435
29. Curricula 483
30. Index of Topics 489
31. Index locorum 499
32. Index nominum 517