Aristoxenus of Tarentum : the Pythagorean precepts (how to live a Pythagorean life) : an edition of and commentary on the fragments with an introduction /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Evidence for the work: the excerpts preserved in Stobaeus
- Title and nature of the work
- Format and style of the work
- Fragments of the Pythagorean precepts preserved in Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean way of life
- A comparison of Stobaeus' and Iamblichus' evidence for the Pythagorean precepts
- Relationship of the Pythagorean precepts to Aristoxenus' other works on the Pythagoreans
- The influence of the Pythagorean precepts on the later Pythagorean tradition
- History of scholarship on the Pythagorean precepts
- The standard view of the Pythagorean precepts
- The ethical system of the Pythagorean precepts
- Fragments with translation and commentary
- The Pythagorean precepts: a reconstructed text in English
- Fragment 1: obedience to parents and the laws (fr. 34 Wehrli = Stobaeus 4.25.45)
- Fragment 2: the importance of order and supervision for every age of life (fr. 35 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 4.1.49)
- Fragment 3: desire (fr. 37 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 3.10.66)
- Fragment 4: the generation of children (fr. 39 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 4.37.4)
- Fragment 5: the love of what is beautiful and fine (fr. 40 Wehrli = Stobaeus 3.1.101)
- Fragment 6: learning must be willing (fr. 36 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 2.31.119)
- Fragment 7: luck (fr. 41 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 1.6.18)
- Fragment 8: human nature is prone to excess and needs the supervision of the gods, parents and laws (fr. 33 Wehrli, Iamblichus, vp 174-6)
- Fragment 9: opinion, the training of children and young people, pleasure, desire, diet, and the generation of children (fr. 38 Wehrli, Iamblichus, vp 200-13)
- Fragment 10: the appropriate and the inappropriate in human interaction on starting points and rulers (Iamblichus, vp 180-3)
- Fragment 11: friendship (Iamblichus, vp 101-2, 230-3)
- Appendices
- Subsidiary precepts 1: avoid crowds in the morning, and 2: avoid hunting (Iamblichus, vp 96-100)
- Subsidiary precept 3: memory (Iamblichus, vp 164)
- Subsidiary precept 4: all sex is harmful (Diodorus Siculus, library of history 10.9.3), Stobaeus, Eclogae 3.1.71: divination, medicine, and music
- Concordance with the fragment numbers in Wehrli's edition.