"The majority of the contributions to this volume were first presented at a conference held on October 23-25, 2013, at the Freie Universitat Berlin"-- Page [1] Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
880-01 Appendix: Two Humanist Lives of Pythagoras / Transfer of Afterlife Knowledge in Pythagorean Eschatology / Ada Palmer. The Appropriation of the Figure of Orpheus and Orphic Doctrines: An Example of Pythagoras' Artful Knavery (kakotechnie)? / Francesc Casadesús Bordoy -- The Making of Pythagoreanism: Orpheus, Aglaophamus, Pythagoras, Plato / Luc Brisson. II. Metempsychosis. Philolaus on the Soul / Richard McKirahan -- Is Parmenides a Pythagorean? Plato on Theoria as a Vision of the Soul / Sylvana Chrysakopoulou -- Aristotle and the Pythagorean Myths of Metempsychosis / Gabriele Cornelli -- Pythagoras and Christian Eschatology: The Debate on the Transmigration of Souls in Early Scholasticism / Bernd Roling. III. Tropos tou biou. Aristoxenus and Timaeus on the Pythagorean Way of Life / Maurizio Giangiulio -- Pythagorean Askesis in Timycha of Sparta and Theano of Croton / Claudia Montepaone and Marcello Catarzi -- The Sentences of Sextus and the Christian Transformation of Pythagorean Asceticism / Ilaria Ramelli -- Porphyry's Letter to Marcella: A Literary Attack on Christian Appropriation of (Neo)Pythagorean Moral Wisdom? / Irini Fotini Viltanioti -- Reinventing the Pythagorean Tradition in Pseudo-Justin's Cohortatio ad Graecos / Luca Arcari -- Transformations of Pythagorean Wisdom and Psychic askesis in Proclus' Timaeus Commentary / Dirk Baltzly -- The Active and Monastic Life in Humanist Biographies of Pythagoras / Ada Palmer -- Richard Reitzenstein, Pythagoras and the Life of Anatomy / Jan N. Bremmer. IV. Dietetics and Medicine. The Pythagoreans on Medicine: Religion or Science? / Stavros Kouloumentas -- Pythagoreans and Medical Writers on Periods of Human Gestation / Andrea Barker -- Iamblichus on Pythagorean Dietetics / Hynek Bartoš. V. Music. The Pythagoreans and the Therapeutic Effects of the Paean between Religion, Paideia, and Politics / Antonietta Provenza -- "Are Flute-Players Better than Philosophers?" Sextus Empiricus on Music, Against Pythagoras / Emidio Spinelli. VI. Number and Harmony. Greek Arithmology: Pythagoras or Plato? / Leonid Zhmud -- Pythagorean Numerology and Diophantus' Arithmetica: A Note on Hippolytus' Elenchos I 2 / Eugen Afonasin -- The Pythagorean Metaphysics of Numbers in the Works of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' and al-Shahrastāni / Ana Izdebska -- Pythagoras and the "Perfect" Churches of the Renaissance / Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier -- Kabbalah as a Transfer of Pythagorean Number Theory: The Case of Johannes Reuchlin's De Arte Cabalistica / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- Unfolding Pythagoras: Leibniz, Myth and Mathesis / Samuel Galson. VII. Refractions. The Pythagorean Doctrine in the Caucasus / Tengiz Iremadze -- Ibn Sīnā's and Al-Ghazālī's Approach to Pythagoreanism / Beate Ulrike La Sala -- Marsilio Ficino and Plato's Divided Line: Iamblichus and Pythagorean Pseudepigrapha in the Renaissance / Denis Robichaud -- Pythagoras Refracted: The Formation of Pythagoreanism in the Early Modern Period / Hanns-Peter Neumann. Appendix: Three Texts on Pythagorean Way of Life. Pythagoras, the Wandering Ascetic: A Reconstruction of the Life of Pythagoras According to al-Mubashshir ibn Fātik and Ibn Abī Uṣaybi'a / Emily Cottrell -- Two Humanist Lives of Pythagoras / Ada Palmer.
Series:
Episteme in Bewegung : Beiträge zu einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte, 2365-5666 ; Band 4
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