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  title info:
    title: Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans
  name:
    name part: Zhmudʹ, L. I︠A︡. (Leonid I︠A︡kovlevich)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: rus
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiv, 491 pages)
  abstract: In ancient tradition, Pythagoras (c.570–c.495 bc) emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. Arguably the most influential thinker among the Presocratics, he was thought to have possessed supernatural qualities. This combination of characteristics has led to his portrayal as a controversial and elusive figure. In contrast, his early Pythagorean followers, such as the doctors Democedes and Alcmaeon, the Olympic victors Milon and Iccus, the botanist Menestor, the natural philosopher Hippon, and the mathematicians Hippasus and Theodorus, all appear in our sources as ‘rational' as they can possibly be. This volume studies Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers, allowing the representations to complement and critique each other. Using sources dating back to before 300 bc, the book portrays a more historical picture of Pythagoras and of the political society founded by him in Croton. With chapters devoted to the sciences, philosophy, and religion cultivated by Pythagoreans, a critical distinction is made between the theories of individual Pythagoreans. They were as ‘normal' as any other Presocratic, a ‘normality' that ensured the continued existence of Pythagoreanism as a philosophical and scientific school.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Pythagorean question : problems, methods, and sources -- 1. The early tradition on Pythagoras and its development -- 2. Biography : sources, facts, and legends -- 3. Who were the Pythagoreans? -- 4. The Pythagorean communities -- 5. Mathematici and Acusmatici : the Pythagorean "symbols" -- 6. Shamanism and metempsychosis -- 7. Mathematics -- 8. Harmonics and acoustics -- 9. Astronomy -- 10. Medicine and life sciences -- 11. Pythagorean philosophies -- 12. Pythagorean number doctrine in the Academy and Lyceum.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Leonid Zhmud ; translated from Russian by Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Translated from the Russian.
  subject:
    topic: Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers, Ancient
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Pythagorisme
  subject:
    topic: Philosophes anciens
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: History & Surveys
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
  classification: B243 .K34 2012eb
  classification: 182.2
  classification: 5,1
  classification: 6,12
  classification: CD 3313
  classification: CD 3317
  identifier: 9780191741371
  identifier: 019174137X
  identifier: 9780191626388
  identifier: 0191626384
  identifier: 9780199289318
  identifier: 019928931X
  identifier: 368781 MIL
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: StDuBDS
    record creation date: 120712
    record change date: 20260318191320.8
    record identifier: in00005708897
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng