The Pythagorean sourcebook and library : an anthology of ancient writings which relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean philosophy

Titre
The Pythagorean sourcebook and library : an anthology of ancient writings which relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean philosophy

Auteur
Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan, 1871-1940.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Fideler, David R., 1961-

1987
 
1988

Grand Rapids : Phanes Press, [1987].

Description matérielle
361 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780933999510
 
9780933999503

Note générale
Includes indexes.

Table des matières
The Pythagoras sourcebook -- The Pythagorean library.
 
The monochord: the mathematics of harmonic mediation -- The soul, its nature and care -- Pythagorean educational theory -- The pythagorean community -- His advice to women -- Why he called himself a philosopher -- How he shared Orpheus' control over animals -- On Pythagoras' preexistence -- How Pythagoras cured by medicine and music -- Pythagorean asceticism -- His study of musical harmonics -- The Pythagorean symbols or maxims -- Perictyone: on the duties and harmony of a woman -- Phyntis, daughter of Callicrates: on woman's temperance -- The ethical fragments of Hierocles -- Passages from Plato and Aristotle.

Vedette-matière - nom de personne
Pythagoras.

Terme de vedette-matière
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.

Anglais


BibliothèqueType de matérielEmplacementNuméro de cote topographiqueCode à barres du documentStatut
JFAdult non-fiction bookNonfiction182.2 GUT39066036806905Nonfiction