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Record Nr.

UNISA996214769503316

Autore

Zhmud Leonid

Titolo

Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans [[electronic resource] /] / Leonid Zhmud; translated from Russian by Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-77742-7

9786613687814

0-19-162638-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (516 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WindleKevin <1947->

IrelandRosh

Disciplina

182.2

Soggetti

Pythagoras and Pythagorean school

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the Pythagorean question : problems, methods, and sources -- The early tradition on Pythagoras and its development -- Biography : sources, facts, and legends -- Who were the Pythagoreans? -- The Pythagorean communities -- Mathematici and Acusmatici : the Pythagorean 'symbols' -- Shamanism and metempsychosis -- Mathematics -- Harmonics and acoustics -- Astronomy -- Medicine and life sciences -- Pythagorean philosophies -- Pythagorean number doctrine in the Academy and Lyceum.

Sommario/riassunto

In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers.