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A History of Pythagoreanism
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the…
Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans
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…
The Music of Pythagoras: how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space
Describes the legacy of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic who contemplated the order and symmetry behind musical beauty, discussing Platonists, string theory, and Bertrand Russell.
"Pythagoras's influence on the ideas, and…
"Pythagoras's influence on the ideas, and…
The Harmony of the Spheres: a Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music
"Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin here traces the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos is in some way a musical or harmonious entity."--Publisher's description.
Iamblichus: On the Pythagorean Life
The Pythagorean Life is the most extensive surviving source on Pythagoreanism, and has wider interest as an account of the religious aspirations of late antiquity. -- Amazon.com.