Pythagoras: His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical SourcesThe timeless brilliance of this exhaustive survey of the best classical writers of antiquity on Pythagoras was first published in 1687 in Thomas Stanley’s massive tome, The History of Philosophy. It remains as contemporary today as it was over three hundred years ago. The text of the 1687 book has been reset and modernized to make it more accessible to the modern reader. Spelling has been regularized, obsolete words not found in a modern dictionary have been replaced, and contemporary conventions of punctuation have been used. Biographical sketches of Thomas Stanley and Pythagoras by Manly Palmer Hall, founder of the Philosophical Research Society, have been included, along with a profound overview of Pythagorean philosophy by Platonic scholar Dr. Henry L. Drake. The extensive Greek language references throughout the text have been corrected and contextualized, and reset in a modern Greek font. Each quotation has been verified with the source document in Greek. An extensive annotated appendix of these classical sources is included. A complete bibliography details all the reference works utilized, and a small Glossary defines a number of terms, especially those from musical theory, which may be unfamiliar to the non-technical reader. |
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Contents
His First Education and Masters | 2 |
How He Trayeled to Phoenicia | 3 |
How He Trayeled to Egypt | 4 |
How He Went to Babylon 5 How He Returned to Samos | 5 |
Trayels to Delos Delphi Ilrete and Sparta | 7 |
How He Went to Olympia and Phlius | 8 |
His Yoyage to Italy | 10 |
His Arriyal at Qlrotona | 11 |
The Monad | 5 |
The Duad | 6 |
The Triad | 7 |
The Tetrad | 8 |
The Pentad | 19 |
The Hexad | 21 |
The Heptad | 24 |
The Ogdoad | 26 |
Hi ration to the Youn | 12 |
His Qration to the Senators | 13 |
His Qration to the Boys | 14 |
His Qration to the Women 15 His Institution of a Sect in Priyate and Public | 15 |
His Authority in Iliyil Affairs | 17 |
Wonders Related of | 18 |
His Death | 19 |
His Person and Yirtues | 20 |
His Wife Ilhildren and Semants | 21 |
Hi ritin | 22 |
His Disciples | 23 |
DISCIPLINES AND DOCTRINES OF THE PYTHAGOREANS | 24 |
The Great Authority and Esteem 0f Pythagoras | 1 |
The Two Sorts of Auditors | 2 |
S Purificatiye Institution by Sufferings 4 Silence | 4 |
Abstinence Temperance and Qther Ways of Purification | 5 |
Community of Estates | 6 |
Admission or Rejection | 7 |
Distinction | 8 |
How They Disposed the | 9 |
How They Examined Their Actions | 10 |
Secrecy | 11 |
THE DOCTRINE OF PYTHAGORAS | 14 |
Mathematical Sciences | 15 |
The Mathematical Sciences Preparatiye to Philosophy Arithmetic | 16 |
Intellectual | 1 |
ciential | 2 |
S The Two Kinds of Sciential Number | 3 |
Symbolic Numbers | 4 |
The Ennead | 27 |
The Decad | 29 |
Diyination by Numbers | 1 |
Music | 1 |
Yoice Its Kinds | 1 |
First Music in the Planets | 2 |
The Octochord | 3 |
The Arithmetical Proportions of Harmony | 4 |
The ame mbol Ex lained ther | 4 |
The Diyision of the Diapason | 5 |
The Cannon of the Monochord | 6 |
Institution by Music | 7 |
Medicine by Music | 8 |
Geometry | 11 |
Astronomy | 19 |
Of a Point Line Superficies and Solid | 1 |
Propositions | 2 |
How He Determined the Stature of Hercules | 5 |
The Other Part of Practical Philosophy | 1 |
Its Parts | 7 |
Physic | 3 |
Of the Su lunar Part of the orld | 2 |
Medicine | |
Glossary | |
Endnotes | |
Additional Notes to the Text by J Daniel Gunther | |