Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans [[electronic resource] /] / Leonid Zhmud; translated from Russian by Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland
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Zhmud Leonid
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| Titolo: |
Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans [[electronic resource] /] / Leonid Zhmud; translated from Russian by Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (516 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 182.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pythagoras and Pythagorean school |
| Altri autori: |
WindleKevin <1947->
IrelandRosh
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans |
| ISBN: | 1-280-77742-7 |
| 9786613687814 | |
| 0-19-162638-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996214769503316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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