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February 2015.
http://www.stichting-pythagoras.nl/
nico.bader@stichting-pythagoras.nl
Nico Bader, Marie-Anne de Roode
This annual Newsletter gives articles and a summary of literature, book reviews of
recent publications concerning Pythagoras and Pythagoreans. Interesting
internetsites, work in progress and conferences are included.
We will be very pleased to receive information of books and (journal, internet) articles
to keep our lists up to date.
Nico Bader - Chairman of the Pythagoras Foundation.
What one may note in summary about the Neopythagorean tradition is its strong
transcendental tendency, its emphasis on the mathematicization of reality, and its stress on
the ineffability of God, even to the point of asserting his superiority to any qualities whatsoever,
which might be taken to include intellectual activity.
From: John Dillon. The middle platonists. A study of platonism 80 B.C. to A.D. 220.
Revised edition. 1996. p 383.
Contents:
Introduction, news from the library
Acknowledgements. Tabula Cebetis 1573. Colophon
Pythagoras Foundation 40 years
John Dillon, interview + CV
International Association for Presocratic Studies. Conference 2014
Conferences + Internet
New books
New book chapters
Book reviews
New journal articles
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Introduction
The ‘Stichting Pythagoras’ was founded in 1974. Last year we celebrated our
40th anniversary. Looking at the actual situation a change took place, mostly due to
the different ways of information technology and communication.
One could say: from a paper library to an almost digital worldwide information centre.
The development of the Foundation is given on page 4 of this Newsletter.
Our website attracted many visitors; last year 587 unique visitors did read the Newsletter;
visitors from 35 different countries!
Thanks to all contributors to this Newsletter, especially thanks
to John Dillon for the interview.
Best wishes,
Marie-Anne de Roode
Pythagoras Foundation Library Information.
The Library collects all publications concerning Pythagoras and Pythagoreans.
The library is a lending library; also copies of articles can be ordered.
Copy costs and postage will be calculated.
The Foundation is a non-profit organisation; our Newsletter is free of charge.
Donations, also in the form of articles or books are very welcome.
The Pythagoras Foundation, Thorbeckelaan 46, 1412 BR Naarden, The Netherlands
International Bank Account Number (IBAN): NL48 RABO 0148 0000 45
BIC: RABONL2U
News from the library
The Pythagoras Foundation’s main activities are, collecting and distributing information.
We incorporated the huge amount of documentation in paper and photographic form in
our archives that came available from the archives of the late Gerard van der Horst.
These archives did give us no additional information concerning WCPO or WUPO, so the
articles ‘Pythagoras Foundation, WCPO and WUPO’, part 1 and 2 in resp. Newsletter 12
and 17, will therefore not be continued.
There is a good progression in the transition to a digital library. About 70% of the articles
in the database are in digital form now.
Academia-edu is a very interesting information point, concerning contacts and papers.
An indispendable source of (new) information. See our Academia page:
https://stichting-pythagoras.academia.edu/NicoBader
We have 30 ‘followers’ and 84 ‘followings’ now. Our page was viewed 311 times,
with 152 views of Newsletter 19, 2013.
We stopped our activities with Linkedln.
Nico Bader
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Acknowledgements
The Pythagoras Foundation thanks the following individuals for their contributions and
generosities: Konstantinos Boudouris, John Dillon, Philip Horky, Constantinos Macris,
Jean-Claude Picot and Rosemary Wright.
The Pythagoras Foundation thanks the following institutions for their contributions and
generosities: L’ Annee Philologique, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR,
CLASSICISTS@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK, Instituto Neo-Pitagórico,
infoclassicas@yahoogroups.com, Leiter reports, neoplatonism@yahoogroups.com,
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, philia@philia.be, philosophie-antique@yahoogroupes.fr,
rogueclassicism.com and https://sites.google.com/site/empedoclesacragas/
(and others).
Tabula Cebetis; schilder: anoniem, 1573; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam; objectnummer
SK-A-2372. http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.4688
Colophon
Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter; starting 2012, published once a year.
Editors:
Nico Bader, Marie-Anne de Roode
Address:
Thorbeckelaan 46. 1412 BR Naarden. The Netherlands
E-mail:
nico.bader@stichting-pythagoras.nl
Website:
http://www.stichting-pythagoras.nl/
Editorial Board, in progress
Advisory Board, in progress
ISSN: 1872-3241 (online version); 1872-3233 (printed version)
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)PYTHAGORAS FOUNDATION 1974 - 2014
Johan van der Meulen and Gerard van der Horst found the Stichting Pythagoras in
December 1974. They think it a matter of major concern to give their documentation
a solid legal basis for the future.
Gerard van der Horst, pedagogue by profession, is active in the WUPO (World Union of
Pythagorean Organizations), as head of the Department of Archeology and History.
He publishes and issues a Newsletter on behalf of the Stichting Pythagoras
“to keep the departments of WUPO and other interested people informed about our
bibliographical work” . From 1974 till 1988 he publishes 10 newsletters: the publication stops
because of too little response.
His major interests are archeology (Crotone and Sybaris), a Pythagoras bibliography,
pictures of Pythagoras and coins. Concerning coins he publishes an article in the Pythagoras
issue of Hermeneus, 1981, 53. p 141- 152, Pythagoras en numismatiek. (in Dutch)
Johan van der Meulen, chemist by profession, has as his main concern collecting
(bibliographic information about) publications concerning Pythagoras and Pythagoreans.
Also technical mathematics (the pythagorean theorem, pythagorean triples and the like) has
his interest. Van der Horst compares it with ‘collecting stamps’ (he was also a learned stamp
collector).
Both founders are bibliophiles, both have broad interests and libraries are their ‘second
home’. Many hours they spend in several libraries. These activities result in a huge amount
of information in the form of copies of articles and books.
Both founders maintain contacts with esoteric groups: ORA in Germany, Grex Quintus
Pythagorean Fellowship, Ordo Pythagorae in England and Instituto Neo-Pitagórico in Brasil.
At the end of the eighties of the last century these contacts fade away.
The main concern becomes the exoteric approach to Pythagoras and Pythagoreans.
And to establish a Pythagorean library and documentary centre. Important steps are made
with a classification system and database.
Johan passes away in 2000, Gerard in 2012. We think of them with great respect.
In 1996 we start with an Internet website and in 2003 a new start is made with a Newsletter.
Thanks to modern technology it has become much easier and less time consuming to find,
to collect and to organise (our) information. At the same time it is a necessity to hold some
grip on the growing flow of information.
The bibliographic information from the books and articles are collected in databases.
The articles are now scanned in pdf format.
Digital books of interest from the Internet are collected and summarized in a database.
Via internet, email and social media there are many contacts worldwide.
Started as a library with paper information 40 years ago, we have come to an information
centre with worldwide contacts and information in paper and (mostly) digital form.
The ‘mathematicization of reality’. Thanks to Pythagoras.
Nico Bader
Further information about the founders can be found in the articles ‘Pythagoras Foundation,
WCPO and WUPO’, part 1 and 2 in resp. Newsletter 12 and 17.
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)JOHN DILLON
School of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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A short interview.
Q1: Your first study concerned Iamblichus; why this choice?
A1: Iamblichus was initially a proposal of my supervisor at UC Berkeley, Professor
Gerson Rabinowitz, who was not prepared to supervise me in a thesis on Plotinus,
as I had wished, since he declared that he knew nothing about him, but proposed to
me that Iamblichus (of whom he had made a study of the Protrepticus, needed his
fragments collected. I had barely heard of this person at the time, but in retrospect I
am very glad that he made that suggestion!
Q2: Could Plato be called a Pythagorean?
A2: I think that Plato himself would have been happy enough to be called a
Pythagorean, but I don’t think that we can do that without certain qualifications.
However, if we take the so-called ‘unwritten doctrines’ into account (as I think we
must), and take account also of the positions of his immediate followers, Speusippus
and Xenocrates, one can accept that the basic principles of his philosophy, such as a
primary Monad and Dyad representing Limit and Unlimitedness, a system of Forms
which are, in their final form, essentially mathematical entities, and an austere ethics,
are essentially Pythagorean.
Q3: What is the importance of the Pythagorean Golden Verses?
A3: Well, they were certainly important in later times, though more at the introductory
phase of a course in Platonic philosophy, but I don’t think that they had any
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)importance for Plato himself, if indeed they were in existence in his time.
Q4: Which questions are the most fascinating about Pythagoras, Philolaus or
Archytas, suppose you could ask them personally?
A4: Pythagoras I would ask if he really acquired the intuition about the role of
harmony in the universe from passing a blacksmith’s forge, as I like that story.
Of Philolaus, I think I would enquire whether he believed that the human soul was
immortal, or just a harmonia of the body (as his pupils Simmias and Cebes appear to
hold!), or perhaps both. And of Archytas, I would ask how he came to know of Plato,
and what particularly attracted him about him — and how did he extricate him from
the clutches of Dionysius II.
Q5: How important are the Pythagoreans in the Platonic tradition?
A5: I think that the basic concepts of a dyad of supreme principles, of cosmic
harmony, and the mathematicization of reality are enormously important, as well as
the ideal of the theios anêr, or holy man, as someone rather more than human, and
an intermediary between God and Man.
Q6: How important are the Neopythagoreans?
A6: The ‘Neopythagoreans’ -- beginning with the Old Academicians Speusippus and
Xenocrates, are of course of enormous importance for Platonism; and we must
include here not only such figures as Eudorus of Alexandria, Moderatus of Gades,
Nicomachus and Numenius, but the large corpus of Pseudo-Pythagorica, including
especially works of ‘Philolaus’ and ‘Archytas’! The ‘Neoplatonic’ phase of Platonism
would not have been possible without them.
Q7: Which subjects in Pythagoreanism need more attention?
A7: I don’t really have an answer to that. There has been so much written on the
movement recently, not least by Carl Huffman, but also by Zhmud, Kahn and others,
that I think that all aspects are pretty well covered. But I’m sure that scholarly activity
in the area will not dry up!
Q8: What are your actual (and future) plans, works, ideas?
A8: As for myself, I am working primarily on Plotinus (finishing an edition of
Enn. IV 3-4 for Parmenides Press), and Philo of Alexandria (finishing an edition of his
Life of Abraham, in cooperation with Ellen Birnbaum). More generally, I am
concerned with the allied questions of personal immortality and ‘becoming like God’,
and how these issues relate to the modern ‘scientific’ age.
Q9: Music is important in many aspects. What is your favorite music?
A9: I have to admit that my favourite type of music, about which I know most, is
modern jazz. I value it particularly for its mastery of improvisation. Such figures as
Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman would be my
particular favourites — though I can also listen to Beethoven or Mozart forever!
Q10: Is there a missing question?
A10: And I think that is about all!
Thank you!
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)John Dillon
Biographical Note
School of Classics, B6004 Arts Bldg., Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Home phone: ++353-1-8323096
E-mail: jmdillon@eircom.net
John Dillon was born in the United States, but grew up in Ireland, near Dublin.
After schooling in Ireland and England, he graduated in Classics (Literae
Humaniores) from Oxford in 1961. After a period of 5 years away from scholarship,
during which he taught English in a school in Ethiopia, and then Latin and Greek in a
school in Ireland, he applied for and was awarded an Associateship in Classics at the
University of California at Berkeley in 1966, gaining a Ph. D. there (with the topic ‘The
Fragments of Iamblichus’ Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato, text, translation and
commentary). Following on this, he joined the faculty of the Department of Classics
at Berkeley, where he remained until 1980, serving as Chairman of the Department
from 1977-80. He then returned to Ireland, to assume the Regius Professorship of
Greek at Trinity College Dublin, where he remained until his retirement in 2006. In
1997, he founded the Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition in Trinity College,
in which he still takes an active part.
He is the author or editor of a series of books in the area of Greek Philosophy,
in particular the history of the Platonic tradition, including Iamblichi Chalcidensis in
Platonis Dialogos Commentariorum Fragmenta, Brill: Leiden, 1973; The Middle
Platonists, Duckworth: London 1977, 2nd ed. 1996; Alcinous, The Handbook of
Platonism, trans., with commentary (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers Series),
Oxford, 1993. Iamblichus, De Anima, ed., with introduction, translation, and
commentary (with John Finamore), Leiden: Brill, 2002, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of
the Old Academy, 347-274 B.C., Oxford, 2003, and three collections of essays, The
Golden Chain: Studies in the Development of Platonism and Christianity (1991), The
Great Tradition: Further Studies in the Development of Platonism and Christianity
(1997), and The Platonic Heritage (2012), all with Variorum: Aldershot or Farnham.
He is member of the Royal Irish Academy (Senior Vice-President 2001/2), and
in 2004 he was awarded the Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities. In 2010 he was
elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens.!
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30 June – 4 July 2014. ''Interdisciplinary Center for Aristotle Studies'' Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki-Thessaloniki, Greece
http://www.dikam.auth.gr/en/presocratics-conference-2014/en
MONDAY, 30 JUNE
Video:
Opening Ceremony of the Fourth Biennial Conference at the Main Hall of AUTH.
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (morning session 30/6/2014)
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (evening session 30/6/2014)
(click for videopresentation)
Iakovos Vasiliou
Mixing minds: Anaxagoras and Plato’s Phaedo
Evangelos Moutsopoulos
To what extent are Empedocles’ elements pure?
Elizaveta Sherbakova
On Heraclitus and the sawing-analogy in the De Victu
Nie Minli
Yin and Yang and the hot and the cold
Omar Álvarez
Stability vs. Flux: the early reception of Heraclitus’ doctrine
Beatriz Bossi
Heraclitus and Parmenides on the one and the many
Giovanni Casertano I nomi dell’ amore nel Empedocle
Gabriele Cornelli
Three versions of the Pythagoran doctrine of numbers
Elias Giannakis
Notes on Democritus’ views reported by al-Ya'qubi
(died c. AD 905)
Refik Güremen
The ethical and political naturalism of Protagoras
Benjamin Harriman Melissus’ argument for monism
Harrison Hibbert
Heraclitus on religion and the divine
Andrei Lebedev
Parmenides the Pythagorean
Bryan Reece
On the precursors and Influence of Diogenes of Apollonia
Liliana Sánchez Castro Motion, knowledge and incorporeality; Aristotle on Heraclitus
in De Anima I
Alberto Bernabé
Terminology of cosmological processes in the Derveni Commentary
Tiberiu Popa
Elemental varieties in the Presocratics and beyond
Oliver Primavesi
Pythagoreanism in Empedocles’ Physics
John Seiradakis
The Antikythera Mechanism
Demosthenes Davettas Heraclitus and contemporary art: Fluxus movement,
installations,
TUESDAY, 1 JULY
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (morning session 1/7/2014).
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (evening session 1/7/2014)
(click for videopresentation)
Pieter Hasper
Two Democritean arguments for the existence of atoms
Katerina Ierodiakonou Democritus’ basic colours
Barbara Sattler
Space and place in Zeno
Theodosios Tassios The concept of matter in the Presocratics
Scott Austin
Negation in Parmenides revisited
Chloe Balla
pephuken pleonektein: on the origins of an originally beastly
human nature
Gottfried Heinemann Is regularity according to Empedocles imposed on or inherent in
things
Naoya Iwata
Philolaus and the attunement theory in Plato’s Phaedo
Elena Lappa
The notion of motion in Democritus’ and Aristotle’s philosophy of
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Emese Mogyoródi
How the sun might shed some light on the two ways of Parmenides
Anthony Preus
A Presocratic diet: On Regimen II
Thomas Robinson
Zeno and ‘if-then’
Maximilian Robitzsch Political order in Heraclitus
Marian Wesoly
On Gorgias’ personal demonstration
Andrew Gregory
Presocratic Science: Approaches and opportunities
Dirk Couprie
The paths of celestial bodies according to Anaximenes
Dmitri Panchenko
Anaximenean astronomy in the light of Chinese parallels
WEDNESDAY, 2 JULY
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (morning session 2/7/2014).
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (evening session 2/7/2014)
(click for videopresentation)
Attila Nemeth
Democritus B156
Panagiotis Thanassas Parmenides in Freiburg: varieties of the question of being David
Torrijos-Castrillejo
A new model for the mixture of Anaxagoras
Néstor-Luis Cordero The elenchus of fr. 7,5 refers to Parmenides’ own cosmology
(that is not the doxa)
William Altman
Replacing Parmenides B3: A matter of opinion?
Jacob Greenstine
Non-being in Aristotle’s account of Parmenides’ monism
Katarzyna Kolakowska and Christian Vassallo On the Orphic tradition in the
Herculaneum Papyri: Testimonia to Orpheus in Philodemus’
On Piety and On Music
Yosef Liebersohn
Gorgias the sophist and the the birth of rhetoric
Costas Macris
Archaic wisdom and the philosophical gaze before Plato and
Aristotle
Dana Munteanu
Pythagoreans on the comic stage
Elisavet Nicolaidou Aristotle on Heraclitus
Michael Papazian
Testimony on Pythagorean abstention from beans in a medieval
Armenian manuscript
Miriam Peixoto
How to name the invisible principles? (atomists)
Valeria Piano
Daimones in the Derveni Papyrus
Livio Rossetti
Three versions of Zeno’s Dichotomy?
Patricia Curd Thought and structure in Empedocles (40 min)
Jenny Bryan
The Epistemological implications of Empedocles’ painter analogy
(DK 31B23)
Arnaud Macé
The growth of the elements; Empedocles’ vegetal metaphysics
THURSDAY, 3 JULY
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (morning session 3/7/2014).
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (evening session 3/7/2014)
(click for videopresentation)
Wright, M.R.
Rangos, Spyridon
Motta, Anna
Michael Augustin
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How Presocratic is Plato’s Timaeus?
A new translation and interpretation of Heraclitus B30
Gli antecedenti storici del Platonismo: ruolo dei Presocratici secondo I
Neoplatonici
Weight in Democritus’ atomism
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Francesc Casadesus Why according to Heraclitus are philosophers inquirers into many
things?
Aditi Chaturvedi
Harmonie in Heraclitus’ cosmology
Lisa Fretschel
Epistemology and politics in Light of the anthropos metron principle
Enrique Hulsz
Parmenides 1.3 revisited
Tobias Keppler
The Xenophanean «One» - an offspring of the One of the first
deduction of Plato’s Parmenides?
Christopher Kurfess A blend of much-wandering limbs; the text and context of Parmenides
B16
Lidia Palumbo
Platone e Empedocle: l’analogia tra natura degli ente e loro
espressione linguistica
Christos Pechlivanidis On fitting the phenomena: Aristotle’s critique of the Pythagoreans in
De Caelo 2.13 and Metaphysics A5
Enrico Piergiacomi «Man is that which we all know» Remarks on Democritus’
anthropological fragments
Thomas Tuozzo
Parmenides and the pluralists on the causes of change
Stavros Baloyannis Empedocles and the Christian moral principles
Pierre Destree
Gorgias on the Value of Art (Encomium of Helen as a paignion) m
Enrico Nuzzo
Le figure metaforiche nel linguaggio dei Presocratici
Robert Wallace
Sophists before Protagoras
FRIDAY, 4 JULY
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (morning session 4/7/2014)
Conference Sessions at KEDEA Conference Hall (evening session 4/7/2014)
(click for videopresentation)
Carl Huffman
The Pythagoreans and abortion
Michael Shaw
Seeds and worlds in Anaxagoras
Irini Viltanioti
The harmony of the Sirens from ancient Pythagoreanism to Plato
Amin Afrouzi
Object and method of inquiry in Parmenides’ On Nature
Nili Alon Amit
Heraclitus’ wakefulness and dryness of soul
Dimitra Balla
Aristotle’s criticism of Empedocles’ view on animal composition
Stavros Kouloumentas Did Socrates read Alcmaeon’s book?
Richard McKirahan Philolaus on the soul
Maria Teresa Padilla Alcmeon of Croton: medicine as a living model of universal order and
equilibrium
Christina Papachristou Sleep and dreams in Democritus and Aristotle
Marco Antonio Santamaria The role of the sun in the cosmogony of the Derveni papyrus
Georgios Steiris
The reception of Presocratic philosophy in fifteenth century Italy:
Ficino and Pico on the Presocratics
Piotr Swiercz
The problem of the status of harmony in Pythagorean philosophy
Alexander Mourelatos The ‘limitless’ (apeiron) in Xenophanes’ cosmology and his doctrine
of ‘conjecture’ (dokos)
Stephen White
Parmenides on necessary truth
Daniel Graham report on the IAPS Council meeting
Richard McKirahan news and notes
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Séminaire Platonicien : le médioplatonisme (Nanterre, 18 avril)
La prochaine séance du Séminaire Platonicien (« De quoi y a-t-il des Formes ? ») sera
consacrée au médioplatonisme.
http://www.zetesis.fr/spip.php?article1021
Angela Ulacco « Formes et nombres au début du platonisme impérial: Timée de Locres et
les autres pseudo-pythagoriciens »
Colloque Katábasis: dans la tradition littéraire et la pensée religieuse de la Grèce/in Greek
Literary Tradition and Religious Thought May 2-5th, 2014
Montréal , Université de Montréal (2-3 May), Québec, Musée de la civilisation (4 May),
Québec, Institut d’études anciennes (5 May)
http://calenda.org/282219
Constantinos Macris La catabase de Pythagore: essai de contextualisation et
d’interprétation
Les traditions antiques sur la catabase de Pythagore nous sont connues essentiellement à
travers leur reflet chez deux auteurs d’époque hellénistique: Hiéronymos de Rhodes (fr. 50
White) et Hermippos de Smyrne (FGrHist [contin.] 1026 F 24 [Bollansée]). Après une lecture
détaillée et contextualisée de ces deux témoignages et d’une série de parallèles qui
semblent les éclairer, et un examen critique des interprétations qu’en a proposées la
recherche moderne, on essaiera d’aborder une série de questions qui restent toujours en
suspens: (1) Les traditions sur la descente de Pythagore dont Diogène Laërce nous a
conservé ces échos auraient-elles été relayées à l’origine par les milieux pythagoriciens euxmêmes (ceux des insiders) ou seraient-elles le fait de légendes populaires ou d’inventions
littéraires (celles d’outsiders)? Et dans les deux cas, seraient-elles plutôt tardives,
«contaminées» par les idées développées dans les dialogues de Platon et de ses disciples
de l’ancienne Académie (notamment Héraclide du Pont), ou remonteraient-elles à un
pythagorisme pré-platonicien? (2) À supposer qu’ils ont conservé un noyau authentique, quel
serait le message véhiculé par ces récits? Plus précisément, quel rapport entretiendrait la
descente de Pythagore aux Enfers avec:
a) les représentations traditionnelles (homériques), puis orphiques de l’au-delà, et les deux
descentes paradigmatiques qui y sont attachées: celle d’Ulysse dans la Nekyia et
celle(s) d’Orphée;
b) le culte (magno-grec ou éleusinien) de Déméter et Korè;
c) les enseignements de Pythagore sur la mort, l’immortalité et la transmigration de l’âme,
son jugement post-mortem et son afterlife;
d) les pratiques funéraires pythagoriciennes;
e) quelques biographèmes des Vies de Pythagore et certaines pratiques pythagoriciennes
illustrant l’attention portée par le maître, puis par la secte, aux lieux souterrains, aux
cavernes et aux adyta, principalement à des fins initiatiques, mais aussi en vue de
consultations oraculaires (y compris de nécromancie)?
Pierluigi Piovanelli Katabáseis orphico-pythagoriciennes ou Tours of Hell apocalyptiques
juifs ? La fausse alternative posée par typologie des péchés et des châtiments dans
l'Apocalypse de Pierre
Summaire: Dans sa célèbre monographie Nekyia (1893; 2e éd., 1913), Albrecht Dieterich
soutint qu'il fallait rechercher les origines de la représentation de l'au-delà de l'Apocalypse de
Pierre, dont on venait de découvrir et de publier le premier fragment grec, non pas dans les
textes de la tradition apocalyptique juive, mais plutôt du côté des katabáseis orphicopythagoriciennes. Quatre-vingt-dix ans plus tard, une telle perspective a été complètement
renversée par Martha Himmelfarb dans un ouvrage tout aussi réputé, consacré aux Tours of
Hell juifs et chrétiens (1983). Un nouvel examen de la documentation révèle que la question
était, en réalité, mal posée et qu'il faudrait y apporter des réponses bien plus nuancées. Au-
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mystères gréco-romains et l'ésotérisme juif et chrétien qu'il faudrait repenser.
Deux séances du séminaire Histoire des sciences mathématiques de l'Institut
mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris rive gauche seront consacrées à des sujets à la frontière
entre philosophie et mathématiques dans l'Antiquité.
Jussieu, couloir 15-16, salle 413. Université Paris 6
25 mars 2014 : Leonid Zhmud (Saint-Pétersbourg)
Titre : From Pythagoras to Archytas: Two centuries of Pythagorean Mathematics
Résumé : My lecture deals with the development of the mathematical quadrivium –
geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and mathematical harmonics – in the Pythagorean school in
the 6th-4th centuries BC. Relying mostly on the fourth-century sources, I will try to establish
the individual links in the chain of scientific discoveries linking Pythagoras with Ionian
geometry and astronomy (Thales, Anaximander) on the one hand, and on the other with
Pythagorean mathematics (Hippasus, Theodorus, Archytas).
8 avril 2014 : Luc Brisson (CNRS Centre Jean Pépin)
Titre : La première description mathématique du monde-Le Timée de Platon
Résumé : Dans le Timée, le monde est décrit comme une sphère, la figure géométrique la
plus parfaite, parce que la plus symétrique. C’est un vivant pourvu d’une âme qui rend
compte de tous les mouvements physiques et psychiques qui s’y manifestent, et d’un corps.
Une seule figure géométrique, le cercle, explique la permanence de tous les mouvements
des corps célestes dont par ailleurs la régularité est assurée par une progression
géométrique associée à une proportion arithmétique et à une proportion harmonique. Le
corps du monde est formé à partir de quatre éléments associés à quatre polyèdres réguliers
constitués à partir de deux surfaces, le triangle équilatéral et le carré, eux-mêmes constitués
de triangles rectangles isocèles ou scalènes; la transformation mutuelle de trois de ces
éléments est décrite à l’aide des mathématiques.
L’exposé sera descriptif, mais quelques problèmes seront soulevés : celui de la proportion
qui peut être établie entre des solides, celui du continu et du discontinu, et celui de
l’irrationalité notamment.
"Le principe du Bien, de l'antiquité au moyen âge" est le thème de l'année 2014-2015 du
séminaire mensuel organisé par Anca Vasiliu dans le cadre du programme "L'héritage
philosophique de l'Antiquité" du Centre Léon Robin (CNRS, Université Paris-Sorbonne).
21 mai, 2014. Jean-Claude PICOT : Le feu, le soleil et Apollon chez Empédocle
THE POWER OF THE FORM : PLATONISTS AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Organized by Mauro Bonazzi (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Dimitri El Murr (Université
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / I.U.F.) Thursday 5 June 2014.
http://philevents.org/event/show/14660
B. Centrone (Pisa), La politica degli pseudopythagorica
Platonism and Hellenistic Philosophy. A Milan-Durham joint seminar
Milan, 23-24.10-2014. Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sala direzione
http://eng.dipafilo.unimi.it/ecm/home/archives/calendar-events/content/october-23-24-2014epistemology-platonism-and-hellenistic-philosophy-a-milan-durham-jointseminar.0000.UNIMIDIRE-26637?is-event=true
23.10.2014. P. Horky, Pseudo-Archytas’ Protreptics
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Workshop on Ancient Republics (14-15 November 2014)
Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, 38 North Bailey, Durham.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/mediterranean.centre/events/?eventno=19895
P. S. Horky and M. R. Johnson: 'A Pythagorean Republic? On Law and Justice attributed
to Archytas of Tarentum'
Aitia/aitiai. Le débat sur le lien causal dans le monde antique (et au delà)
organisé par Cristina Viano et Jean-Louis Labarrière
20 novembre 2014.
http://www.centreleonrobin.fr/recherche/seminaires-2/28-recherche/seminaires/114-aitiaaitiai-le-lien-causal-dans-le-monde-antique
Fernando Santoro. " La critique de la lecture aristotélicienne de la cause matérielle chez
Empédocle"
« Il Lato Oscuro della Tarda Antichità. Marginalità e Integrazione delle Correnti Esoteriche
nella spiritualità dei secoli II-VI » organisé par Helmut Seng, Chiara Tommasi Moreschini et
Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete.
Villa Vigoni, Italia, 2014.
http://ancientesotericism.org/2014/10/03/upcoming-workshop-on-hierarchy-in-ancientesoteric-platonisms/
Constantin Macris. Trois principes hiérarchiques d'origine (néo)pythagoricienne:
la dérivation de la dyade à partir de l'un, le presbyteron kreitton et l'ordre tétradique des
veneranda (dieux, démons, héros, âmes).
N20 Internet,
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Huffman, C. Pythagoreanism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoreanism/
First published Wed Mar 29, 2006; substantive revision Fri Oct 31, 2014
Pythagoreanism can be defined in a number of ways. (1) Pythagoreanism is the philosophy
of the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras (ca. 570 – ca. 490 BCE), which prescribed a
highly structured way of life and espoused the doctrine of metempsychosis (transmigration of
the soul after ...
Huffman, C. Pythagoras
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/
First published Wed Feb 23, 2005; substantive revision Wed May 28, 2014
Pythagoras, one of the most famous and controversial ancient Greek philosophers, lived
from ca. 570 to ca. 490 BCE. He spent his early years on the island of Samos, off the coast
of modern Turkey. At the age of forty, however, he emigrated to the city of Croton in southern
Italy and most of his ...
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Carl Huffman (ed.), A history of Pythagoreanism,
Cambridge University Press. April 2014. ISBN: 9781107014398
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 seventeenth
century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his
community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems.
Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought
is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic.
Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later
Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome
and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes
Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of
Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Table des matières:
Introduction, Carl A. Huffman
1. Pythagoras, Geoffrey Lloyd
2. Philolaus, Daniel W. Graham
3. Archytas, Malcolm Schofield
4. Sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century Pythagoreans, Leonid Zhmud
5. The Pythagorean Society and politics, Catherine Rowett
6. The Pythagorean way of life and Pythagorean ethics, M. Laura Gemelli Marciano
7. Pythagoreans, Orphism and Greek religion, Gábor Betegh
8. The problem of Pythagorean mathematics, Reviel Netz
9. Pythagorean harmonics, Andrew Barker
10. The Pythagoreans and Plato, John Palmer
11. Aristotle on the 'so-called Pythagoreans': from lore to principles, Oliver Primavesi
12. Pythagoreanism in the academic tradition: the early Academy to Numenius, John Dillon
13. The Peripatetics on the Pythagoreans, Carl A. Huffman
14. Pythagoras in the historical tradition: from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, Stefan Schorn
15. The pseudo-Pythagorean writings, Bruno Centrone
16. From Nigidius Figulus to Alexander of Abonouteichos: Pythagoreans in Rome and Asia
Minor around the turn of the Common Era, Jaap-Jan Flinterman
17. Diogenes Laertius' Life of Pythagoras, André Laks
18. Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras, Constantinos Macris
19. Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean Life in context, Dominic J. O'Meara
20. Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Andrew Hicks
21. Pythagoras in the early Renaissance, Michael J. B. Allen
Afonasin, E. V. Pythagorean tradition. Pifagorejskaja tradicija. - In kyrill. Schr., russ. Zsfassung in engl. Sprache.
Sankt-Peterburg: Izdat. RChGA. 2014. ISBN 9785888126202
(English version; see Newsletter 18, 2013, p 25 )
Aken, J. van De dwaas van Palmyra
Amsterdam : Prometheus. 2014. ISBN: 978-90-446-2712-1
Samenvatting: De omzwervingen van de filosoof Apollonius en zijn assistent Damis in de
eerste eeuw na Christus.
Barbarēgos, D. Ypatia: Istoriko mythistorēma.
Athēna: Ekd. Mpatsiulas. 2014. ISBN 9789606813733
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Paris: Editions L'Harmattan. 2014. ISBN 9782343033952
La science contemporaine nous amène à reconsidérer certains textes anciens. La
mécanique quantique, tout particulièrement, utilise de nombreux concepts que l'on retrouve
dans les philosophies de Pythagore, Héraclite; Platon, Aristote et Carnéade. Les théories
modernes du langage et de la signification, la nature des nombres et des propositions
logiques, nous offrent aussi l'opportunité d'une confrontation. L'auteur se plaît à mettre en
regard la pensée contemporaine et la pensée antique avec l'espoir d'en voir jaillir quelque
lueur.
Darbari, M. Pythagoras Recalled
Saarbrücken : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. 2014. ISBN: 978-3-659-54731-7
URL: https://www.lap-publishing.com
Fumagalli, S. (Ed.) Versi aurei. Seguiti dalle «Vite di Pitagora» di Porfirio e Fozio, da testi
pitagorici e da lettere di donne pitagoriche
Mimesis. 2014. ISBN 13: 9788857520049
Gheerbrant, X. Poésie et Argumentation dans les fragments des deux poèmes d'Empédocle
This PhD Thesis, whose supervisor was Pr. Ph. Rousseau (UMR STL 8163), was defended
the 11th October 2014, at the University Lille 3 (France).
Abstract: This work questions the nature of the relationship that links the doctrinal contents
of Empedocles' Poems to the vehicle he chose to express his thought - the dactylic
hexameter.
Godwin, J. The Golden Tread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions.
New York: Quest Books. 2014. ISBN 9780835631020
CHAPTER 1: The Prisca Theologia; CHAPTER 2: The Hermetic Tradition;
CHAPTER 3: The Orphic Mysteries; CHAPTER 4: Pythagoras and His School; CHAPTER 5:
Plato's Cave; CHAPTER 6: The Power of the Egregore;
CHAPTER 7: The Meddling God; CHAPTER 8: The Negative Theology;
CHAPTER 9: Cathedrals of Light; CHAPTER 10: The Arts of the Imagination; CHAPTER 11:
The Pagan Renaissance; CHAPTER 12: The Philosopher's Dilemma; CHAPTER 13: Inner
Alchemy; CHAPTER 14: The Religion of Art;
CHAPTER 15: Wise Men from the East. CHAPTER 16: The End of the Thread?
Heath, T. Aristarchus of Samos : The Ancient Copernicus
Newburyport : Dover Publications, 2014. Online-Ressource (770 p).
Print version: Aristarchus of Samos : The Ancient Copernicus. ISBN: 978-0-486-43886-3
Summary: This classic work traces Aristarchus of Samos's anticipation by two millennia of
Copernicus's revolutionary theory of the orbital motion of the earth.
Heath's history of astronomy ranges from Homer and Hesiod to Aristarchus and includes
quotes from numerous thinkers, compilers, and scholasticists from Thales and
Anaximander through Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclides.
Heller-Roazen, D. Le cinquième marteau: Pythagore et la dysharmonie du monde /; traduit
de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Françoise et Paul Chemla
Paris : Seuil, DL 2014, cop. 2014. ISBN : 978-2-02-110006-8
Titre original : The fifth hammer : Pythagoras and the disharmony of the world
Heller-Roazen, D. Der fünfte Hammer : Pythagoras und die Disharmonie der Welt
Frankfurt am Main : S. FISCHER. 2014. ISBN 978-3-10-031412-3
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Herrmann, D. (2014). Die antike Mathematik: Eine Geschichte der griechischen Mathematik,
ihrer Probleme und Lösungen.
Hernández de la Fuente, D.A. Vidas de Pitágoras
Girona, España : Atalanta. 2014. ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-940941-7-0
ÍNDICE Prefacio: Pitágoras y sus vidas en la encrucijada
Primera parte: Mediador con lo divino. Un estudio sobre Pitágoras
I. El mito del hombre divino: en torno al «chamanismo» griego
1. Vocabulario y concepto del hombre divino
2. Entre Apolo y Diomso
3. Algunos chamanes griegos
4. Del hombre divino al santo
II. El mito de Pitágoras: vidas y enseñanzas del hombre divino
1. Pitágoras: de la biografía a la hagiografía
2. Las enseñanzas del hombre divino
3. La vida pitagórica: ética e iniciación en la secta divina
III. El mito del pitagorismo: la caverna, el adivino y la comunidad
1. La caverna y el espacio sacro subterráneo
2. Algunos adivinos griegos
3. Mántica pitagórica: katábasis, incubación, filosofía
4. Política pitagórica: el adivino y la comunidad
5. El legado del modelo político pitagórico
IV. Breve panorama de la tradición pitagórica: pitagóricos y falsarios
1. Pitagóricos: la cuestión del número y la armonía
2. Falsarios: el problema de la tradición pitagórica
3. Algunos biógrafos pitagóricos: acerca de la interpretación neoplatónica
Segunda parte: Vidas de Pitágoras
I. «Pitágoras y el pitagorismo.» Diodoro de Sicilia
II. «Vida de Pitágoras.» Diógenes Laercio
III. «Vida de Pitágoras.» Porfirio de Tiro
IV . «Sobre la vida pitagórica.» Jámblico de Calcis
V. «Vida de Pitágoras.» Focio de Constantinopla
VI. «Vida de Pitágoras.» Suda
Apéndice: Versos de oro 365
Herzfeld-Schild, M.L. Antike Wurzeln bei Iannis Xenakis
Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. ISBN 9783515106894
Die griechische Antike spielt im kulturellen Leben auch des 20. Jahrhunderts eine
bedeutende Rolle - so im Schaffen des griechisch-französischen Komponisten Iannis
Xenakis (1921-2001), der gerne auch als ""Grieche im falschen Jahrtausend"" bezeichnet
wird. Tatsächlich berief Xenakis sich in seinen theoretischen Schriften und Interviews
regelmäßig auf antike Denker wie den Musiktheoretiker Aristoxenos von Tarent, die
vorsokratischen Philosophen Parmenides und Heraklit oder die Schule der Pythagoreer.
Einerseits gab er damit seinen Kompositionsansätzen eine intellektuell geprägte
Rechtfertigung.
Joost-Gaugier, C. L. Pythagoras and renaissance europe: Finding heaven. Cambridge Univ
Press. 2014. ISBN 9781107415232
Part I. Pythagoras, Man for the Renaissance: 1. Prologue: the diffusion of knowledge about
Pythagoras in the Renaissance; 2. The emergence of 'Saint' Pythagoras in the early
Renaissance; 3. The apotheosis of Pythagoras in the sixteenth century;
Part II. The Many Faces of Renaissance Pythagoreanism: 4. The Pythagorean tradition in
the early fifteenth century; 5. The strengthening and deepening of Pythgoreanism in the later
fifteenth century; 6. The maturation and vicissitudes of Pythagoreanism in the sixteenth
century;
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The search for harmony in architecture and art of the fifteenth century; 9. Finding harmony:
form and meaning in architecture and art of the sixteenth century; 10. Conclusions: the
prince of Italian philosophy and the birth of harmony as an aesthetic notion.
Kennedy, J.B. The Musical Structure of Plato''s Dialogues
Hoboken : Taylor and Francis. 2014. ISBN 9781317547983
J. B. Kennedy argues that Plato''s dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use
symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought
that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to
hear this harmony of the spheres. Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar,
hidden musical structure. He divided each dialogue into twelve parts and inserted symbols at
each twelfth to mark a musical note. These passages are relatively harmonious or dissonant,
and so traverse the ups and downs of a known musical scale.
Contents:
1. The nature and history of philosophical allegory; 1.1 Rehabilitating ancient ways of
reading; 1.2 Allegory, Socrates and Plato; 1.3 Symbols, reserve and Pythagoreanism; 1.4
Persecution and the politics of allegory in classical Athens; 1.5 Plato and Pythagoreanism:
two puzzles; 1.6 The allegorical Plato in history; 1.7 Methodological precedent: early
Christianity; 1.8 Methodological precedent: Renaissance Platonism;
2. Introducing the dialogues' musical structure 2.1 Structuring a dialogue2.2 Ancient Greek
music: three key ideas; 2.3 Plato's symbolic scheme; 2.4 Harmony and consonance,
disharmony and dissonance; 2.5 Sevenths and mixture; 2.6 Guide to the strongest evidence;
2.7 Methodology for line-counting; 2.8 Canons of criticism; 2.9 Responses to possible
objections;
3. Independent lines of evidence; 3.1 Simple, objective measurements; 3.2 Parallel passages
at the same relative location; 3.3 Ranges of positive and negative concepts; 3.4 Preview of
the musical structure in the Republic; 3.5 A control: falsifiability and the pseudo-Platonica
4. An emphatic pattern in the Symposium’s frame; 4.1 A theory of music; 4.2 Recurring
clusters of features in the frame; 4.3 A new kind of commentary;
5. Making the Symposium's musical structure explicit; 5.1 Phaedrus; 5.2 Pausanias; 5.3
Eryximachus; 5.4 Aristophanes; 5.5 Agathon; 5.6 Socrates and Diotima; 5.7 Alcibiades;
6. Parallel structure in the Euthyphro; 6.1 The same scale and the same symbolic scheme;
6.2 Guide to the strongest evidence; 6.3 The sevenths; 6.4 The connection to music; 6.5
Another kind of evidence: parallels between dialogues; 6.6 The Euthyphro is not aporetic 6.7
Marking the notes
7. Extracting doctrine from structure; 7.1 Aristotle on virtues and means; 7.2 Stichometry and
the divided line; 7.3 Reading the dialogues in parallel; 7.4 The logic of the argument and its
consequences;
8. Some implications; 8.1 Summary of the case; 8.2 Interpreting the dialogues; 8.3 Problems
with anonymity and intentionality; 8.4 Interpreting Plato, Pythagoras and Socrates; 8.5
History of music and mathematics; 8.6 History of literature and literary theory; 8.7 Ancient
book production, papyrology, textual studies; 8.8 The forward path
Appendix 1: More musicological background
Appendix 2: Neo-Pythagoreans, the twelve-note scale and the monochord;
Appendix 3: Markers between the major notes;
Appendix 4: The central notes;
Appendix 5: Systematic theory of the marking passages;
Appendix 6: Structure in Agathon and Socrates' speeches;
Appendix 7: Euripides and line-counting;
Appendix 8: Data from the Republic;
Appendix 9: OCT line numbers for the musical notes.
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Kenny, A. Die Anfänge der Philosophie: von Pythagoras bis Platon
Darmstadt : Auditorium Maximum. 2014. 1 CD (64 Min.) ; 12 cm
Ausz. aus: Kenny, Anthony: Geschichte der abendländischen Philosophie
ISBN : 978-3-654-60399-5
Levi, N. La Révélation finale à Rome : Cicéron, Ovide, Apulée. Etude sur le "Songe de
Scipion" ("De republica", VI), le discours de Pythagore ("Métamorphoses", XV) et la
théophanie d'Isis ("Métamorphoses", XI),
Paris, Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. 2014. ISBN 978-2-84050-945-5
Résumé : Cet ouvrage aborde, à la frontière de l’histoire et de la théorie littéraires, de la
philosophie et de l’histoire des religions, un schème de pensée en même temps qu’un motif
esthétique présent dans trois monuments de la littérature latine et qui n’a jamais été encore
étudié en tant que tel : celui de la révélation finale, qui trouve des précédents dans le
procédé du deus ex machina de la tragédie grecque et dans celui du mythe eschatologique
final chez Platon, et qui fait également penser, mutatis mutandis, à l’Apocalypse dans la
Bible.
Le dialogue philosophique Sur la République de Cicéron, le cycle poétique apparenté à
l’épopée que sont les Métamorphoses d’Ovide, et le roman de même titre d’Apulée, offrent
en effet la particularité de se terminer tous trois par la mise en scène d’une expérience d’un
accès révélé aux secrets de l’univers.
Ces conceptions philosophiques et religieuses se moulent chacune dans un dispositif
apocalyptique fictionnel et s’intègrent, non sans tension parfois, dans l’univers créateur de
leurs auteurs respectifs. Par un dialogue extrêmement subtil entre la fin de l’œuvre et la
structure qui la précède, ces révélations placées à la fin des œuvres sont aussi des
révélations finales des œuvres elles-mêmes, c’est-à-dire les vecteurs d’une élucidation
rétrospective du sens, élucidation qui atteint notamment chez Apulée un degré spectaculaire
de virtuosité littéraire au service d’une pensée du triomphe de la vérité sur les apparences
trompeuses du monde.
MacLennan, B. J. The wisdom of Hypatia: Ancient spiritual practices for a more meaningful
life. Minneapolis : Llewellyn, 2014. ISBN 9780738735993
Hypatia was the most famous female spiritual teacher of ancient Alexandria. This book offers
a progressive, nine month programme based on the teachings of this inspiring Pagan
philosopher.
Macris, C. Le Pythagore des néoplatoniciens : recherches et commentaires sur le mode de
vie pythagoricien de Jamblique / Constantinos Macris ; sous la direction de Philippe
Hoffmann
Lille : Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 2014.
Contient :
Vol. I, Essai introductif : Contextualisation synchronique et analyse critique du contenu du
traité. –
Vol. II, Un commentaire historique et philosophique des chapitres I-VI. –
Vol. III, Etudes annexes et bibliographie
Thèse : Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Sciences religieuses : Paris, EPHE : 2004.
Résumé(s) : A la fin du IIIe siècle, le philosophe syrien Jamblique (J.) écrit en grec un «
Décalogue » sur la secte pythagoricienne, qui s’ouvre sur un traité où sont exposés la
biographie paradigmatique de Pythagore (P.) et le mode de vie pratiqué par ses adeptes.
Les recherches réunies dans la présente thèse ont pour but de mettre en évidence comment
J. « néoplatonise » les matériaux traditionnels au sujet de P., tout en restant fidèle à ceux-ci.
L’analyse critique du contenu du traité montre l’importance accordée par J. aux « voies de la
Paideia » introduites par P. et aux six vertus constitutives du mode vie pythagoricien. L’essai
introductif voudrait situer le traité au sein d’une vaste entreprise de renaissance du
pythagorisme destinée à revendiquer pour celui-ci le statut de Hairesis. Le commentaire des
chapitres I-VI (1-32) relève la prégnance des thèmes néoplatoniciens, et proprement
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)jambliquéens : rhétorique de l’éloge et discours « hagiographique » ; origine syrienne de P. ;
statut apollinien de son âme envoyée par les Dieux ; valorisation de son apprentissage
auprès des sages orientaux ; récurrence de la thématique éducative ; assimilation de P. à un
être supérieur-bienfaiteur de l’humanité. Le commentaire du chapitre XXXVI, en annexe,
propose une série de fiches prosopographiques sur les 253 pythagoriciens du catalogue final
de J. En annexe, sont proposées également : A.) Une étude sur l’utilisation de la littérature
pseudo-pythagoricienne par J. et sur l’appréciation positive qu’il lui réserve. B.) Un examen
de la figure de ce maître charismatique de la fin de l’époque archaïque que fut P. à la
lumière des catégories sociologiques wébériennes du « charisme » et du « prophète ».
Magre, M. Magiciens et illuminés: Apollonius de Tyane, le maître inconnu des Albigeois, les
Rose-Croix, le mystère des templiers, Nicolas Flamel et la pierre philosophale.
Espéraza: Éd. Equinoxis. 2014. ISBN 9782370920287
Manuel das Neves, J. Pitágoras arquitectos : obras recentes = recent works
Lisboa : Uzina Books. 2014. ISBN/ISSN: 9789898456625
Mooij-Valk, S. Het leven van Apollonius van Tyana / Philostratus
Amsterdam : Singel Uitgeverijen. 2014. ISBN: 978-90-253-0135-4 (e-boek)
Samenvatting: Ze zijn bijna gelijktijdig geboren, Apollonius en Jezus, en
ondanks alle verschillen vertonen hun levens opvallende overeenkomsten. In hun strijd tegen
de christenen schoven de heidenen Apollonius naar voren als hún profeet, groter dan Jezus.
Ook tegenwoordig zijn er nog groepen die Apollonius beschouwen als een belangrijke leraar.
In de eerste eeuw trok filosoof Apollonius van Tyana door vele landen. Hij maakte indruk
door zijn ascetische levenswijze en spoorde zijn toehoorders aan tot saamhorigheid en
behulpzaamheid. Hij legde partijtwisten bij, verleende hulp, verrichtte wonderen en herstelde
oude religieuze gebruiken. Philostratus biografie is nu voor het eerst in het Nederlands
vertaald. Het leven van Apollonius is een bonte verzameling reisbeschrijvingen, verhalen
over exotische dieren, de zeden van vreemde volken en gesprekken met koningen en
keizers. Dat alles in een kader van literaire, mythologische en historische toespelingen.
Mede daarom is zijn boek door de eeuwen heen veel gelezen.
Olivet, F. d’ Die Goldenen Verse des Pythagoras /
Frankfurt am Main : Edition Pleroma. 2014. ISBN: 978-3-939647-28-7
Philostratos. Das Leben des Apollonios von Tyana.
Berlin : De Gruyter. 2014. Parallele Ausgabe(n): Weitere Ausg.: ISBN: 9783110361599;
Online-Ausg.: ISBN: 9783110361582, ISBN : 978-3-11-036115-5
Primavesi, O. Werke in deutscher Übersetzung Bd. 20 Fragmente Teil 2 Über die
Lehrmeinung der Pythagoreer
Berlin Akad.-Verl. 2014. ISBN 9783050037349
Rolland, R. Empédocle: Suivi de L'éclair de Spinoza.
Paris: Manucius. 2014.
Ruggeri, M. Apollonio di Tiana: Il Gesù pagano.
Milano: Mursia. 2014.
Schreiber, A. Die Farbe der Ziffern: Pythagoräische Verse
Berlin : epubli GmbH. 2014. ISBN: 978-3-7375-1253-4
URL: http://www.epubli.de/shop/isbn/9783737512534
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Sertoli, G. Figure di Ipazia.
Roma: Aracne. Studi e testi di Palazzo Serra, 3. 2014. ISBN 9788854871557
Collected essays.
Hypatia (?-415), was a Greek Alexandrian Neoplatonist philosopher; she was murdered by a
Christian mob after being accused of exacerbating a conflict between two prominent figures
in Alexandria: the governor Orestes and the Bishop of Alexandria.
Shaw, G. Theurgy and the soul : the Neoplatonism of Iamblichus
Kettering, OH : Angelico Press, 2014
Iamblichus was once considered one of the great philosophers. The Emperor Julian followed
Iamblichus's teachings to guide the restoration of traditional pagan cults in his campaign
against Christianity. Although Julian was unsuccessful, Iamblichus's ideas persisted well into
the Middle Ages and beyond. His vision of a hierarchical cosmos united by divine ritual
became the dominant worldview for the entire medieval world. Even Ralph Waldo Emerson
wrote that he expected a reading of Iamblichus to cause a "revival in the churches." But
modern scholars have dismissed him, seeing theurgy as ritual magic or "manipulation of the
gods." Shaw, however, shows that theurgy was a subtle and intellectually sophisticated
attempt to apply Platonic and Pythagorean teachings to the full expression of human
existence in the material world.
SILVA, G.V. da Império Romano do sofista grego Filóstrato nas viagens da Vida de
Apolônio de Tiana (século III d.C.).
Tese (Doutorado em Historia) - Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho.
2014.
Strachan, G. Jesus the Master Builder: Druid Mysteries and the Dawn of Christianity.
New York: Floris Books. 2014. ISBN 9781782501022
PART I: AND DID THOSE FEET?; 1: When did Christianity come to Britain?; 2: Did Joseph
of Arimathea come to Britain?; 3: Did Jesus and Joseph come together?; 4: Why would
Jesus have come to Britain?; 5: How Reliable Are the Sources?; 6: The Pythagorean Option;
PART II: JESUS THE PYTHAGOREAN; 7: The Pythagorean Tradition; 8: Simone Weil and
the Pythagorean Doctrine; 9: Gematria -the Hidden Key; 10: Joshua the Anointed One; 11: The Master Builder at Sepphoris; 12: The
Essene Connection;
PART III: WISDOM IN THE NORTH. 13: Wisdom is Universal14: Wisdom goes North; 15:
From Glastonbury to Stonehenge; 16: Pythagorean Stone Circles; 17: Apollo of the
Hyperboreans; 18: The Pillars of Wisdom; 19: The Sapphire Throne;
Strohmeyer, A. "Die Sonne tönt nach alter Weise ..." : Goethe, die Lehre des Pythagoras
und die moderne Naturwissenschaft.
Herne : Schäfer. 2014. ISBN: 978-3-944487-20-5
Towey, A. Alexander of Aphrodisias. Ancient commentators on Aristotle.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2014. ISBN 9781780938844
In his work On Sense Perception, Aristotle discusses the material conditions of perception,
starting with the sense organs and moving to the material basis of colour, flavour and odour.
His Pythagorean account of hues as a ratio of dark to light was enthusiastically endorsed by
Goethe against Newton as being true to the painter's experience. Aristotle finishes with three
problems about continuity. First, in what sense are indefinitely small colour patches or colour
variations perceptible? Secondly, which perceptible leap discontinuously like light to fill a
whole space, which have to reach on.
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Trepanier, S. Empedocles: An Interpretation.
Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. 2014.
Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles - one of the founding figures of
Western philosophy - since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new
fragments of his lost work to light.
Table of Contents;
Chapter I The Single-Work Hypothesis; 1. The Unity of Empedocles' Thought; 2. The Case
for the Single-Work Hypothesis; 3. The Two Titles;
Chapter II The Framework: Proem and Doctrine; 1. A Single Theory of Everything; 2. The
Direct Evidence for Empedocles' Proem; 3. Indirect Evidence for Empedocles' Proem:
Sedley's Thesis ; a. The Hymn to Venus; b. The Address to Memmius and the Semina
Rerum; c. The Sacrifice of Iphigenia; d. General Precepts. 4. Proposed Reconstructiona.
The Division by Addressees: Plural and Singular; b. Fragments Addressed to Plural
Addressees; c. Fragments with a Single Addressee;
Chapter III Interpreting the Framework; 1. The Proem and Doctrine: Difficulties of
Interpretation; a. Gods and Men; b. The Aim of the Present Section; c. A Preliminary
Objection: Aristotle on the Presocratics; d. The Proems of Parmenides and Lucretius; e. The
Function of a Proem; f. Empedocles' Divinity according to B 112, B 115, and B 17/ensemble
a; 2. Pedagogical Strategies and Protreptic Philosophical Works. A. Plato and Empedocles
as Representatives of the Hierarchical Tradition of Thoughtb. Protreptic Philosophical Works:
Rhetorical Features in Empedocles' Proem;
Chapter IV The Persuasion of Empedocles; 1. General Remarks: Empedocles' Heroic
Synthesis; 2. Bacchics, Orphics, and Pythagoreans; a. Three Related Movements; b. The
Afterlife: A Basic Typology; c. Orphic or Pythagorean?; d. Empedocles' Rational Theology
and Eschatology; 3. Parmenides' Poem: Unity by Exclusion; a. A Defense of the Current
Consensus; b. A First Contrast: ßios; c. First and Second Order. 4. Historical Interlude:
Divine and Mortal Knowledgea. Poetic Pessimism and Causal ""Overdetermination"": Pindar
; b. The Homeric Gods before the Unity of All Things: Two Types of Response; c.
Xenophanes on Knowledge; d. Heraclitus: God's-Eye View and Geometrical Mean; 5.
Empedocles' Response to Parmenides: The Continuity of Thought; a. Divine and Mortal
Thought in Parmenides; b. Ancient and Modern Critiques of Parmenides; c. Empedocles'
First Principles as Thinking Beings; d. Empedocles on Mortal and Divine Thought; 6.
Intelligible Order: B 17/ensemble a;
Conclusion; 1. Widening Gaps. 2. Clarification and Elaboration in B 21, 23, 26, and 35
Vinel, N. Jamblique: In Nicomachi Arithmeticam, introduction, texte critique, traduction
française et notes de commentaire. Mathematica graeca antiqua, 3.
Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2014. ISBN 9788862276160.
Viltanioti, Irini-Fotini. (2014). L'harmonie des Sirènes du pythagorisme ancien à Platon.
Brill, Leiden.
Wolfstetter, L. Die Ermordung der Philosophin und Naturwissenschaftlerin Hypatia auf
Anstiftung des christlichen Patriarchen Kyrillos : eine Tat, um die Dogmen des
geozentrischen Weltbildes und der Wesensgleichheit von Jesus mit Gottvater an einer
Andersdenkenden zu exekutieren / Lothar Wolfstetter
Biberach an der Riß : Materialis-Verl. 2014. ISBN : 978-3-88535-479-6
Hypatia, das Schulhaupt der Akademie von Alexandria, wurde im Rahmen der Versuche der
christlichen Kirche Ägyptens, die Souveränitäts- und Pastoralmacht zu erringen, umgebracht,
weil sie den Lehren der Kirche, die Erde ist eine Scheibe und Jesus ist Gott, widersprach
und dies philosophisch und wissenschaftliche begründete. Ihr erging es damit so wie etwa
zeitgleich Arius und Pelagius.
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)N20 new book chapters
Afonasin, E. The pythagorean way of life in Clement of Alexandria and Iamblichus p 13-36
In: Iamblichus and the foundations of late Platonism / ed. by Eugene V. Afonasin, John M.
Dillon, John F. Finamore
Leiden ; Boston (Mass.) : Brill, 2012. Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and
contexts. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; 13
Albertson, D.
PART ONE The Genesis of Neopythagoreanism: A Synopsis
1. Platonic Transformations of Early Pythagorean Philosophy
2. The Neopythagorean Revival: Henology and Mediation
3. The Late Antique Preservation of Neopythagoreanism
In: Mathematical theologies : Nicholas of Cusa and the legacy of Thierry of Chartres / David.
Oxford.
New York City : Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780199989737
Bächtold, W. Macrobius : commentarius ex cicerone in somnium scipionis p 3-13
In: Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1941.
Updated edition. C. G. Jung. Edited by John Peck, Lorenz Jung, and Maria Meyer-Grass
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780691159454
BARKER, A. Empedocles Mousikos
p 87 -94
In: Musica, culti e riti nell'Occidente Greco. / Angela Bellia (ed.). 2014.
Pisa : Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali. Series 1: Telestes; 1
ISBN/ISSN: 9788881474387
Betegh, G. 6. Pythagoreans and the Derveni Papyrus
In: Routledge companion to ancient philosophy / edited by James Warren and Frisbee
Sheffield. 2014. ISBN: 0-415-99126-9
New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. Reeks: Routledge philosophy companions
Bonds, M.E. Orpheus and Pythagoras
p 23-30
In: Absolute music : the history of an idea / Mark Evan Bonds.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Bordt, M. Philosophieren als Sterben-Lernen : anthropologischer Dualismus (62c-69e ;
80e-84b)
p 33-45
In: Platon, Phaidon / hrsg. von Jörn Müller
Berlin : Akademie Verl., 2011. Klassiker auslegen ; 44.
Résumé : Im « Phaidon » wird ein anthropologischer Dualismus vertreten, also die These,
dass der Mensch aus zwei unterschiedlichen Entitäten (materiell und geistig)
zusammengesetzt ist. Dieser Dualismus ist eng verbunden mit der Möglichkeit eines
Weiterlebens nach dem Tod, für die sich Platon von der pythagoreischen Vorstellung der
Seelenwanderung inspirieren lässt ; für die Art des Weiterlebens entscheidend ist die
Lebensführung und die daraus resultierende Art der Verbindung zwischen Seele und Körper.
Damit ist die Seele jedoch nicht mehr schlicht das Prinzip des Lebens, sondern Träger der
Individualität ; diese wird in der Vernunft vermutet. Der metaphysische Dualismus (zwischen
sinnlich wahrnehmbarer Welt und Ideen) kann kein Fundament für diesen anthropologischen
Dualismus sein. Dieses im « Phaidon » angezeigte Problem wird im « Symposion » und im
« Timaios » mit Überlegungen zur Seele als einem dritten Bereich zwischen
Erscheinungswelt und Ideen aufgenommen
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Boscarino, G. Capitolo III La scuola italica in astronomia (da Pitagora, ad Aristarco, ad
Archimede) e la reazione platonico-aristotelica
p 59 - 82
In: Archimede e la tradizione di pensiero italica della scienza : studi e traduzioni.
Ariccia (RM) : Aracne editrice int.le S.r.l. 2014. Series 1: Lo scrigno di Prometeo; 5
ISBN/ISSN: 9788854876453
Braccesi, L. IL NAUFRAGIO DI ARCHITA
p 80 - 90
In: Ionios Poros : la porta dell'Occidente : secondo supplemento a Grecità adriatica
Roma : L'Erma di Bretschneider. 2014. Series 1: Hesperìa; 31
ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-913-0687-6
Brian, K. Myth and the Origin of the Pythagorean Veil.
In: Oxford Scholarship Online. 2014.
Writers on acousmatic sound have never offered a complete history of the term. Usually, the
focus is on the Pythagorean school—where it is claimed that Pythagoras lectured to his
disciples from behind a veil—or on a rare French word, “acousmate.” After collating the most
common claims concerning the history of acousmatic sound and developing the critique of
myth presented in chapter 1, this chapter focuses on the legend of the Pythagorean veil.
When did the veil first appear in the extant literature on Pythagoras? To answer that
question, the ancient sources on Pythagoras are consulted. They reveal that there are, in
fact, no ancient Greek sources that substantiate the claim that Pythagoras employed a veil.
The earliest sources concerning the Pythagorean veil are found in Clement of Alexandria and
reasons are given why Clement may have embellished the Pythagorean legend.
Brisson, L. Chapter 18 of the « De communi mathematica scientia » : translation and
commentary
p 37-49
In: Iamblichus and the foundations of late Platonism / ed. by Eugene V. Afonasin, John M.
Dillon, John F. Finamore
Leiden ; Boston (Mass.) : Brill, 2012. Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and
contexts. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; 13
Summary: An English translation, with commentary, of Iamblichus, Comm.Math. 18, on the
teaching dispensed by the Pythagoreans. This chapter allows us to reconstruct the structure
of the metaphysical system within which Iamblichus wanted to situate mathematics, the
organization of the Pythagorean group, and the distinction between acousmatics and
mathematics.
Buehler, W.
IX. Pythagoreisches und natürliches System als historische Systeme;
46 Der historische Hintergrund des pythagoreischen Systems;
47 Die Grundkonstruktion des pythagoreische Systems;
48 Numerische Gestalt des pythagoreischen Systems;
49 Zum Hintergrund des natürlichen Systems;
50 Numerische Gestalt des natürlichen Systems.
P 87-103
In: Rechnen mit musikalischen Intervallen, Skalen und Stimmungen im historischen Kontext.
Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014
ISBN 9783653041743
Camacho Rojo, J.M. Hipatia de Alejandría
p 37-54
In: En Grecia y Roma. 3, Mujeres reales y ficticias / Andrés Pociña Pérez, Jesús María
García González (eds.)
Granada : Universidad de Granada, 2009.
Cancik, H. Commitment und Charisma im lukanischen Geschichtswerk : die Berufung zur
Nachfolge im kulturgeschichtlichen Vergleich
p 95-109
In: « in omni historia curiosus » : Studien zur Geschichte von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit :
Page 26
Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Festschrift für Helmuth Schneider zum 65. Geburtstag / hrsg. von Björn Onken und Dorothea
Rohde
Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2011. Philippika ; 47
Résumé : Es gibt in der Verteilung von Charisma und commitment keine leichte Scheidung
zwischen Ost- und Westantike. Totales commitment wird bei Lukas gefordert, von Tacitus
begriffen und kritisiert, bei Catull als zerstörerisches Verhängnis abgewehrt und von Apuleius
als unverdiente Erlösung gefeiert. Lukas hat in der Entwicklung seines Themas
« Institutionalisierung von Kerygma und Charisma in einer immer wachsenden Ekklesia » die
Stadien « Berufung und Nachfolge » sowie « Mission und Gemeindebildung » deutlich
unterschieden, seinen zweiten Logos aber ebenso deutlich im ersten vorbereitet. Vorgänge
und Darstellungen, die formal mit dieser Konstruktion vergleichbar sind, finden sich nicht in
den westantiken Religionen, aber partiell in den Schulen der Philosophen und in
Schulgeschichten vom Typus « Über Pythagoras und seine Anhänger ».
Chance, J. Chapter Six. Coluccio Salutati's Hercules as Vir Perfectus: Justifying Seneca's
Hercules Furens in De Laboribus Herculis (1378?-1405)I. Reading Senecan Tragedies: The
Origins of Salutati's De Laboribus Herculis; II. Aeneas's Failed Descent into Virgil's
Underworld: The Pythagorean Y; III. The Influential Boethian Descents: Hercules versus
Orpheus, Ulysses, and Amphiaraus
In: Medieval Mythography, Volume 3 : the Emergence of Italian Humanism, 1321-1475.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014.
Cordero, N-L. Capítulo 5: La realidad dinámica de Empédocles, Anaxágoras, Diógenes de
Apolonia y los pitagóricos
In: Cuando la realidad palpitaba. La concepción dinámica del ser en la filosofía griega.
Biblos, Buenos Aires. 2014. ISBN 978-987-691-212-9
Cornelli, G. Os Números e a Natureza do Mundo no Pitagorismo Antigo
p 37-58
In: ESPAÇOS DO PENSAMENTO CIENTÍFICO DA ANTIGUIDADE
CARMEN SOARES, COORDENAÇÃO
IMPRENSA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA COIMBRA UNIVERSITY PRESS 2014
Abstract: The question, “All is number?”, significantly the title of Zhmud’s 1989 article in
Phronesis, opens a challenge to the extremely important Aristotelian testimony that “all is
number” was the fundamental definition of Pythagorean philosophy. Such a challenge is
anything but easy, especially when one considers that, so far, the histories of both ancient
philosophy and ancient mathematics seemed to have no doubts that this definition was
correct. This paper aims to submit Aristotle’s claim that the Pythagoreans believed that “all is
number” to critical review. Our analysis of the many ways that Aristotle states the thesis “all
is number” will reveal, beyond merely semantic variations, a fundamental theoretical
contradiction that Aristotle himself seems incapable of solving. Three different versions of the
doctrine are in fact present in the Aristotelian doxography: a) an identification of numbers
with the sensible objects; b) an identification of the principles of numbers with the principles
of things that are; c) an imitation of objects by numbers. While versions a) and c) seem to
identify num- bers with the material cause of reality, in terms (“imitation”) reminiscent of
Plato, version b), numbers as formal causes of reality, is an Aristotelian reconstruction of the
Pythagorean theory. Aristotle would have been pushed to such a reconstruction by the
difficulty he found in accepting the Pythagorean material notion of number, and by
considering it closer to its sensitivity, strongly marked by the reception of that same theory in
the Academic realm.
https://bdigital.sib.uc.pt/jspui/bitstream/123456789/170/1/Ebook_Espaços_do_Pensamento_Cient%C3%ADfico_da_Antiguidade.pdf
Cornelli, G. Recepçào da comunidade pitagórica na comédia antiga ateniense p 209- 236
In: Uma trajetória na Grécia antiga, homenagem à Neyde Theml / organizadores Adriene
Baron
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Tada... let al.]. Rio de Janeiro : Apicuri, 2011.
Cucchiarelli, A. Prosimetro a Crotone : Polieno epicureo amante di Circe
p 85-109
In: « Itaque conabor opus versibus pandere » : tra prosa e poesia : percorsi intertestuali nei
« Satyrica » : incontri sulla poesia latina di età imperiale. 3 / a cura di Luciano Landolfi
Bologna : Pàtron, 2010.
Collection(s) : Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del latino. Nuova serie ; 116
Résumé : I versi inseriti (126, 18s.) citano modelli letterari, operano per allusività reciproca e
esprimono gli sbalzi emotivi di Polieno, nome di uno dei primi epicurei e della nuova identità
crotoniate di un Encolpio intenzionato ad amare Circe, la cui figura assomma i tratti di una
complessa tradizione comico-parodica e richiama il personaggio mitico, allegoria dell'ἡδονή
per i Pitagorici ; in 128, 1 leggere « neglegens odor »
Daniel, D. 13. The Empedoclean Renaissance.
In: The return of theory in early modern English studies
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. ISBN: 978-1-137-35104-3
- the early modern reception of Empedocles in the work of Marlowe's "Tamburlaine" and
others.
Demand, N.H. APPENDIX: THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN PYTHAGOREANISM
In: Thebes in the Fifth Century (Routledge Revivals) : Heracles Resurgent.
Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014. ISBN 9781317695387
Donini, P. Il silenzio di Epaminonda, i demoni e il mito : il platonismo di Plutarco nel « De
genio Socratis »
p 187-214
In: The origins of the Platonic system : Platonisms of the early Empire and their
philosophical contexts / ed. by Mauro Bonazzi and Jan Opsomer
Leuven ; Paris : Peeters, 2009. Collection(s) : Collection d'études classiques ; 23
Résumé : In « De genio Socratis » the Pythagorean and Socratic - and, thus, the Academic
and Platonic - philosophical traditions converge in the character of Epameinondas. The
central point in favor of this argument is the silence (592 F) with which Epameinondas
responds to the Pythagorean Theanor's request that he express an opinion on the nature of
Socrates' daimon and on the myth which the Pythagorean and Socratic Simmias has just
related, a myth which has a great deal to do with the question of the nature of the daimon
and with its relation to man. Epameinondas' silence is explained as a manifestation of his
cautious (εὐλαβήω) character. Plutarch employs this term elsewhere (De sera num. uind.
549 E-F), in a statement made in his own voice, to define the proper attitude that a good
Academician ought to have concerning questions touching on the divine and the daimonic,
on which themes man can never attain true knowledge.
Feldmeier, R. Bildung als Weg zu einem gelingenden Leben : die Soteriologie der Tabula
Cebetis
In: Der Höchste: Studien zur hellenistischen Religionsgeschichte und zum biblischen
Gottesglauben. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2014. ISBN 9783161527180
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 330.
Feo, G. 10. Numi e numeri di Pitagora
p 71 – 79
In: Il tempio perduto degli Etruschi
Arcidosso (GR) [i.e. Grosseto, Italy] : Effigi. 2014. ISBN/ISSN: 9788864333984
Notes: First published 2009 by Stampa alternativa with the title Il tempio di Voltumna, now
completely revised.
Fornaciari, F. La Tanella di Pitagora
p 48- 53
In: Italia astrale : porte spazio-temporali nelle tradizioni esoteriche del Medioevo e del
Rinascimento
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Firenze : Press & Archeos. 2014. Series 1: Katharsia; v. 1. ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-96876-43-5
Ferrary, J. L. Durée et éternité dans le « De republica » de Cicéron
p 89-97
In: Letteratura e « ciuitas » : transizioni dalla Repubblica all'Impero : in ricordo di Emanuele
Narducci / a cura di Mario Citroni
Pisa : ETS, 2012. Collection(s) : Testi e studi di cultura classica ; 53
Résumé : Dialettica tra esigenza di durata e ideale di eternità dello Stato nel « De
republica » : in particolare, il passaggio da un concetto all'altro si evidenzia in 1, 26 e 3, 33,
per compiersi definitivamente nel « Somnium Scipionis »
García González, J. M. Teano
p 115-134
In: En Grecia y Roma. 3, Mujeres reales y ficticias / Andrés Pociña Pérez, Jesús María
García González (eds.)
Granada : Universidad de Granada, 2009.
Résumé : Tras un breve estudio sobre la presencia de mujeres en la secta pitagórica, se
analiza la figura de Teano. La autoría de los textos que se atribuyen a Teano plantea una
serie de cuestiones, entre ellas si corresponden a una misma persona o a dos distintas :
Teano de Crotona, conocida como esposa de Pitágoras, y otra Teano más tardía.
Hammacher, W. 4. Hypatia
p 93 - 111
In: Marie Steiner : Lebensspuren einer Individualität / Wilfried Hammacher
Stuttgart : Verl. Freies Geistesleben. 2014. ISBN : 978-3-7725-1906-2
Hernández de la Fuente, D. El hilo de oro (Leg. 654a): herencias religiosas y pitagóricas en
la teoría política de Platón.
p 59-80
In: S. Ariza & C. González (eds.) Boulê. Ensayos en filosofía política y del discurso en la
antigüedad - ISBN: 978-958-695-703-8, Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá. 2012
Herrmann, D. 4 Pythagoras und die Pythagoreer
p 23 - 50
In: Die antike Mathematik : eine Geschichte der griechischen Mathematik, ihrer Probleme
und Lösungen.
Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer Spektrum. 2014. ISBN 978-3-642-37611-5
Herrmann, D. Nikomachos von Gerasa
p 305-315
In: Die antike Mathematik : Eine Geschichte der griechischen Mathematik, ihrer Probleme
und Lösungen;; Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Springer Spektrum.
ISBN 978-3-642-37611-5
Nikomachos von Gerasa publizierte eine Arithmetik, die ganz im Geist der
spätpythagoreischen Zahlenlehre geschrieben ist und zur Vorlage späterer Autoren, wie
Boethius wird. Es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, dass ein Großteil der Ideen, die man den
Pythagoreern zuschreibt, von ihm und seinem Kommentator Iamblichos entwickelt wurde.
Bedeutsam ist auch sein Beitrag zur pythagoreischen Musiklehre, die ebenfalls Boethius als
Quelle dient.
Herrmann, D. Theon von Smyrna.
p 317-324
In: Die antike Mathematik : Eine Geschichte der griechischen Mathematik, ihrer Probleme
und Lösungen;; Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Springer Spektrum. ISBN
978-3-642-37611-5
Theon von Smyrna will in seiner Schrift die mathematischen Grundlagen erklären, die man
seiner Meinung nach zum Verständnis der Platonischen Lehre benötigt. Die von ihm
behandelte Doppelfolge zeigt einen Zugang zum Werk Platons, den anderen Autoren nicht
haben. Sie erklärt eine zuvor nicht verstandene Stelle aus Proklos‘ Kommentar zur Politeia
Platons. Seine astronomischen Beiträge werden von O. Neugebauer kritisch betrachtet.
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Huffman, C. A. Aristoxenus' account of Pythagoras
In: Presocratics and Plato : festschrift at Delphi in honor of Charles Kahn : papers presented
at the festschrift symposium in honor of Charles Kahn organized by the HYELE Institute for
Comparative Studies, European Cultural Center of Delphi, June 3rd-7th, 2009, Delphi,
Greece / ed. by Richard Patterson, Vassilis Karasmanis, and Arnold Hermann
Las Vegas (Nev.) : Parmenides Publications, 2012
Idel, M. Pythagorean philosophy and modern scholarship p 123-148
In: Moshe Idel : representing God / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
JAILLARD, D. Apollonius de Thyane et les formes du prophetisme dans le
monde greco-romain
p 187 - 205
In: Comment devient-on prophète? : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France,
Paris, les 4 - 5 avril 2011 / Jean-Marie Durand ... (éds.)
Fribourg : Academic Press Fribourg; Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2014.
ISBN : 978-3-525-54390-0
Kane, B. CHAPTER 2. Myth and the origin of the Pythagorean veil
In: Sound unseen : acousmatic sound in theory and practice
New York, NY : Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN: 978-0-19-934785-8
Koskenniemi, E. Apollonius of Tyana, the Greek Miracle Workers in the
Time of Jesus and the New Testament
p 165 - 182
In: Hermeneutik der frühchristlichen Wundererzählungen : geschichtliche, literarische und
rezeptionsorientierte Perspektiven / hrsg. von Bernd Kollmann und Ruben Zimmermann
Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck. 2014. ISBN : 978-3-16-152465-3
Lamberti, P. Physin aéide theà : Epica e scienza
p 37-57
In: Figure e autori dell'epica : atti del convegno, Sala Ghislieri, Mondovì (CN) 8-11 aprile
2011 / a cura di Stefano Casarino, Amedeo Alessandro Raschieri
Roma : Aracne, 2012. Collection(s) : A10 ; 821
Résumé : A partire dal « Perì physeos » di Empedocle e dal « De rerum naturae » di
Lucrezio esamina il modo in cui viene rappresentata la natura nel poema didascalico antico,
a confronto con le rappresentazioni moderne di Leopardi e Quenau
Lenz, M. A. 2. Der pythagoreische Mythos als Kritik am philologischen Wissen
p 80 - 100
In: Genie und Blut : Rassedenken in der italienischen Philologie des neunzehnten
Jahrhunderts.
Paderborn : Fink. 2014. Hochschulschrift: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2013
ISBN 978-3-7705-5770-7.
Lorenzoni, F. 3 Pitagora e la ricerca infinita della radice di due p 66 – 95
In: I bambini pensano grande : cronaca di una avventura pedagogica
Palermo : Sellerio. 2014. Series 1: La memoria; 978. ISBN/ISSN: 9788838932601
Loupiac, A. « Lux in tenebris » : le chant VI de l'« Énéide », « summum opus »
pythagoricien ?
p 625-644
In: « Stylus » : la parole dans ses formes : mélanges en l'honneur du professeur Jacqueline
Dangel / contrib. réunies par Marc Baratin [et al.]
Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2010. Collection(s) : Rencontres ; 11
Résumé : Aen. 6 est marqué à tous les niveaux par le pythagorisme, même dans la
composition numérique du livre
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Luca, R. Inumeri dell'armonia. Un percorso matematico - Pitagorismo e musica Matematica e musica nel Timeo - Cause e numeri in Platone
In: Platone e la sapienza antica : matematica, filosofia, armonia
Venezia : Marsilio. 2014. Series 1: Ricerche. ISBN/ISSN: 9788831718554
LUPO, C. Aspetti della pratica musicale pitagorica a Crotone e a Taranto
In: Musica, culti e riti nell'Occidente Greco / Angela Bellia (ed.). 2014.
Pisa : Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali. Series 1: Telestes; 1
ISBN/ISSN: 9788881474387
p 175 – 184
Macris, C. Hiéroclès d’Alexandrie
p 384-388
In: C. Méla, F. Möri Alexandrie la divine, Neuchâtel, La Baconnière, 2014, 2 vol.
Marx-Wolf, H. Pythagoras the Theurgist. Porphyry and Iamblichus on the Role of Ritual in
the Philosophical Life
p 32 - 38
In: Religious competition in the third century CE : Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman
world / ed. by Jordan D. Rosenblum ...
Göttingen ; Bristol, Conn. : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2014. ISBN: 9783647550688;
Online-Ausg.: Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the
Greco-Roman World. ISBN 978-3-525-55068-7
MELE, O. L'oro di Pitagora
p 279-290
In: Aurum : funzioni e simbologie dell'oro nelle culture del Mediterraneo antico
a cura di Marisa Tortorelli Ghidini
Roma : "L'Erma" di Bretschneider. 2014. Convegno internazionale Aurum, (2011 :
Naples, Italy). Series 1: Studia archaeologica; 193. ISBN/ISSN: 9788891304827
Montano, A. 3. Senso e ragione nella gnoseologia di Empedocle di Agrigento »
p 25 - 66
In: Methodos : aspetti dei metodi e dei processi cognitivi nella Grecia antica
Napoli : Loffredo editore. 2014. Series 1: Skepsis; 25. ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-7564-642-4
Moretti, I. Parte IX. Le profonde radici allogene della cultura massonica/dal Pitago rismo
all'Illuminismo e al Cristianesimo alternativo
p 589 - 672
In: La candela del Signore : utopia, ideologia e prassi nella Libera muratoria
Roma : Editori riuniti. 2014. Series 1: Squadra & compasso. ISBN/ISSN: 9788864731520
O'Brien, D. DIE ARISTOPHANES-REDE IM SYMPOSION: DER EMPEDOKLEISCHE
HINTERGRUND UND SEINE PHILOSOPHISCHE BEDEUTUNG
p 265-282
In: Platon als Mythologe : Interpretationen zu den Mythen in Platons Dialogen / Markus
Janka/Christian Schäfer (Hrsg.)
Darmstadt : WBG. 2014. ISBN : 978-3-534-25494-1
Périllié, J.L.
Partie I: Phénoménalité et vérité du Socrate mystérique
Chapitre IV : Mystères et Palaios Logos orphique dans le Phédon
p 173 - 207
1. Theia moira, irruption d'une parole siléniqueet nouvelle apologie de
nature ésotérique
Eudaimonia de Socrate, theia moira et paroles « siléniques ». Socrate interprète ses
propres paroles siléniques. Une nouvelle apologie, ésotérique celle-ci
2. Socrate et la tradition philolaïque : une tradition orale de l'orphisme.
Le ouï-dire (ex akoès)de Socrate et son intention de partage des doctrines.
Ce que savent Cébès, Simmias et Socrate sur l'enseignement de Philolaos ..
Partie II: Mystères et initiations socratiques
Chapitre III: Les initiations reçues par Socrate
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)1. Rencontre d'Euthyphron et daimonia sophia
Un étrange phénomène de transmission de l'enthousiasme- rapport à la
tradition orphique de Y Ion
Pythagorisme du discours et improvisation 438 Socrate comme theios
anèr,réformateur de l'orphisme
2. Diotime ou l'énigme d'une tradition orale, La formation « érotique » de Socrate,
Diotime, prêtresse orphique, Une synthèse entre « érotique » et tradition
pythagoricienne de l'eudémonisme
In: Mystères socratiques et traditions orales de l'eudémonisme dans les Dialogues de Platon
/ Jean-Luc Périllié. Préface de Thomas A. Szlezák
Sankt Augustin : Academia-Verl. 2014. ISBN 978-3-89665-649-0
Portale, E. C. Le « nymphai » e l'acqua in Sicilia : contesti rituali e morfologia dei votivi
p 169-191
In: Cultura e religione delle acque : atti del Convegno interdisciplinare « Qui fresca l'acqua
mormora … » (S. Quasimodo, Sapph. fr. 2,5) : Messina 29-30 marzo 2011 / a cura di Anna
Calderone
Roma : G. Bretschneider, 2012. Collection(s) : Archaeologica ; 167
Résumé : Analisi del contesto rituale e degli schemi votivi dei reperti (busti di divinità e
piccole terrecotte votive, vasellame, lucerne) rinvenuti nel Santuario rupestre di Agrigento
riferibili al rapporto fra acqua e « nymphai » ; la divinità venerata nel santuario sarebbe da
identificare con Nestis, elemento acqua della tetrade di Empedocle assimilata a Persefone
Precope, J. ALKMAEON
p 71-75
In: Iatrophilosophers of the Hellenic States, edited by JOHN PRECOPE, ButterworthHeinemann. 2014. ISBN 9781483167923.
Abstract: This chapter presents the life history of Alkmaeon. One of the most eminent
iatrophilosophers of Magna Grecia, he was born in Crotona in about 570 B.C. Only the titles
and a few fragments of his numerous medical and philosophical works have been left. He
believed that the human soul was immortal and partook of the divine nature, because like the
heavenly bodies, it contained a principle of motion. His doctrines on physics and medicine
seem to have partly arisen out of the speculations of the Ionians. The historians believe that
he was celebrated for his anatomical discoveries, but it is not known whether his knowledge
in this branch was derived from the dissection of animals or of beings. His color notions may
be connected with his reputation as an ophthalmologist. Alkmaeon divided the body into four
regions: (1) the head, (2) the heart, (3) the navel, and (4) the pubis.
Double principle.
Immortality of the soul.
Physics, Medicine, Anatomical discoveries.
Ophthalmology, Philogeny.
Precope, J. EMPEDOCLES
p 114-120
In: Iatrophilosophers of the Hellenic States, edited by JOHN PRECOPE, ButterworthHeinemann. 2014. ISBN 9781483167923.
Abstract: This chapter presents a brief life history of Empedocles. Empedocles e was born at
Acragas in Sicily in about 490 B.C. The historians claim that in his youth, although from a
wealthy family, Empodocles joined the revolution against the tyrant of his native town, and
after his magnanimous support of the poor against the over-bearing aristocrats, he was
offered the sovereignty but he refused, for his ambition was not an earthly crown but a
celestial one. He became a brilliant orator, a poet, and a physician. Historical evidence
reveals that he freed the city of Silinus from a deadly pestilence by draining the soil.
Influenced by Orphic ideas, he preached a form of Pythagoreanism and believed in
metamorphosis, and that he had been a boy, a girl, a bush, a bird and a fish, and in the fall of
man but that the fate of the soul depended on the acts of men. His evolutionary theory
assumes the less perfect to have arisen from the more so.
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Qualitative atomism : elementary substances qualitatively differantiated
Life and death : mixture and separation : Love and Strife : Evolution theory
Averter of Epidemics, Controller of storms
Healer of Diseases. Medical treaty.
Precope, J. HERACLEITUS
p 85,87-94
In: Iatrophilosophers of the Hellenic States, edited by JOHN PRECOPE, ButterworthHeinemann. 2014. ISBN 9781483167923.
Abstract: This chapter presents a brief history of Heraclitus. Heraclitus was born in 533 B.C.
and went to become one of the most eminent Ionian philosophers. He was accused,
however, of being obscure. Historical evidence reveals that as the contrast to Democritus,
Heraclitus is represented weeping over the frailties and follies at which the other laughed. Of
the general mass of the people, he said that they fill their bellies like cattle and ten thousand
do not turn the scale against a single man of worth. He considered his philosophic
predecessors—Pythagoras and Xenophanes—as deeply versed in books but shallow in
themselves. Historians claim that only fragments of his numerous and valuable work have
been left to study. Heraclitus declared that there must be some physical principle as the
ground of all phenomena and also a living unity inherent. The historians believe that
Heraclitus was the apostle of motion, a transcendentalist whose monistic views accepted by
Epicurus were necessary to the understanding of the medical theories of the later Methodists
and Pneumatists.
Continual flux of all.
Sum of being invariable.
Fire inherent in all.
Soul pure fire.
Precope, J. ORPHEUS
p 23,25-28
In: Iatrophilosophers of the Hellenic States, edited by JOHN PRECOPE, ButterworthHeinemann. 2014. ISBN 9781483167923.
Abstract: This chapter highlights the life of Orpheus. Orpheus was a well-known priest
physician who was also connected with the worship of Apollo and Dionysus. Orpheus is
known to surpass his teacher in music and power, and it was said that he was inspired by
Apollo himself. As to the miraculous power of his lyre, Plato, Aeschylus, and Euripides refer
to it saying that even the trees used to follow its sound. It is said that the origin of sacred
mysteries is ascribed to him and that he was a teacher of religious initiations who forbade
murder. His theology gave water and matter as the beginning of things. Orpheus believed
that the body was a sort of a tomb for the soul that was imprisoned for her punishment, and
in his sociology he speaks of “that holy and indispensable justice sitting next to the throne of
Zeus and surveying all that concerns man.”
Great musician.
Miraculous power.
Vegeterianism & ascetic life
Book “On Nature”.
Precope, J. PARMENIDES
p 95-103
In: Iatrophilosophers of the Hellenic States, edited by JOHN PRECOPE, ButterworthHeinemann. 2014. ISBN 9781483167923.
Abstract: This chapter presents a brief life history of Parmenides. Parmenides was born in
513 B.C. in Elea in Italy. He became a pupil of Xenophanes of Colophon, then the teacher of
Zeno the Eleate, and Empedocles of Agrigentum. Parmenides wrote his work on philosophy
in verse, and he also composed a poem on physiology. Various historian claims that he
assumed that existence is and nonexistence inconceivable. Parmenides regarded the
ultimate form of matter as the one eternal substance that is neither generated nor destroyed,
and added qualitative to quantitative constancy. He said there was no such thing as empty
space, consequently there was no motion, for there is no void into which what is moved can
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)move. He dismissed Heraclitus' changes as an illusion. Historical evidence shows that he
separated the changeless existence from the world of phenomena and did not trace the latter
to the former. He recognized that the existent as such is unconnected with separation,
succession, relation to space or time, coming into existence and change.
Permanence, not change, characteristic of reality.
Eternal immovable form. “The absolutely existent”.
Primordial forms of Warm (the existent) and Cold (the non existent)
Poem on Physiology.
Precope, J. PHEREKYDES
p 55-56
In: Iatrophilosophers of the Hellenic States, edited by JOHN PRECOPE, ButterworthHeinemann. 2014. ISBN 9781483167923.
Abstract: This chapter presents a brief life history of Pherekydes. He was born in Syros in
610 B.C., and was a disciple of Pittacus and the teacher of Pythagoras who adopted the
doctrines of metempsychosis and of the immortality of the soul that were taught by
Pherekydes. He maintained that there were three principles. The historical evidences reveal
that he foretold, on drinking some water, given to him from a well, that there would be an
earthquake in three days and the earthquake happened in that time. Historians believe that
there is not much written about him about his medical knowledge, but if the extraordinary
prophetic powers that were attributed to him and the doctrine of metempsychosis are
considered, there remains little doubt that Pherekydes must have also pursued that branch of
knowledge. There are varied accounts of where he was buried. According to one account, he
was buried at Delphi by Pythagoras.
Three principles : The Creator, the Creation & Time
Metempsychosis
Immortality of the soul
Prophetic powers
Precope, J. PLATO
p 219,221-265
In: Iatrophilosophers of the Hellenic States, edited by JOHN PRECOPE, ButterworthHeinemann. 2014. ISBN 9781483167923.
Abstract: This chapter highlights the works and the life history of Plato. Plato was born in
430 B.C. in Athens. Plato descended on his paternal side from Codrus and on his maternal
from Solon. Educated by the most distinguished teachers of his time, he joined the circle of
Socrates at the age of 20. Historical evidence reveals that he was accused of sensuality,
avarice, servility, vanity, ambition, and envy. Various historians claim that Plato, like
Socrates, believed that wisdom is the attribute of divinity, that philosophy springing from the
impulse to know is essential to man and his greatest good. Existence, he believed, can
consist neither in rest nor in motion yet can share in both and stand in reciprocal community.
Interpretation of the Universe on terms of Mind or Reason
Logic, Ethics, Politics, Metaphysics.
Ductrines on Health and Disease
Precope, J. PYTHAGORAS
p 61,63-70
In: Iatrophilosophers of the Hellenic States, edited by JOHN PRECOPE, ButterworthHeinemann. 2014. ISBN 9781483167923.
Abstract: This chapter presents a brief life history of Pythagoras. Pythagoras was born in
580 B.C in Samos. Historical evidence reveals that Pythagoras, who had visited Egypt a
century before Herodotus, is supposed to have been a prophet and a wonder worker like
Orpheus, Melampus, or Epimenides. He had, in common with the Orphies, a belief in: “the
fall of the soul by sin.” The word philosopher was first used by Pythagoras. He was called
Pythagoras because, according to Aristippus of Cyrene, he uttered the truth as infallibly as
did the Pythian oracle. Various historians believe that numbers appeared to Pythagoras as
the substance of everything. He considered music and especially the lyre as a powerful
agent in the treatment of disease, chiefly mental disease, and used special tunes for
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)depression, melancholia, and mania. It is believed that Pythagoreans gained the confidence
of people by revealing the secrets of their confederation. The priests in the Asclepeiia fearing
to lose the leadership in medical matters were constrained to do the same. Thus exposed to
the light of publicity medical science began further its extraordinarily progressive course.
Divine Inspiration.
Metempsychosis
Numbers as Primary elements.
Ethical and scientific training
Vegeterian diet, Regimen and Music
Primavesi, O. Empedokleisches im Tod des Empedokles: Ein neuentdeckter Text des
Vorsokratikers und Hölderlins Trauerspiel
p 13-41
In: Hölderlin in der Moderne, edited by Vollhardt, Friedrich.
Berlin, Germany: Schmidt, 2014. ISBN 9783503137688
PROVENZA, A. Pitagora e le Muse. Per una lettura di Timeo, F131 FGrHist
In: Musica, culti e riti nell'Occidente Greco. / Angela Bellia (ed.). 2014.
Pisa : Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali. Series 1: Telestes; 1.
ISBN: 9788881474387
p 79-86
RAFFA, M. Acustica e divulgazione in Archita di Taranto : il fr.1 Huffman come "Protrettico
alla scienza"
p 95 - 104
In: Musica, culti e riti nell'Occidente Greco. / Angela Bellia (ed.). 2014.
Pisa : Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali. Series 1: Telestes; 1
ISBN: 9788881474387
Puccini-Delbey, G. La vertu de silence dans les « Métamorphoses » d'Apulée p 225-236
In: Présence du roman grec et latin : actes du colloque tenu à Clermont-Ferrand (2325 novembre 2006) / textes réunis par Rémy Poignault ; (avec la collab. de Sandrine Dubel)
Clermont-Ferrand : Centre de recherches A. Piganiol-Présence de l'Antiquité, 2011
Caesarodunum bis ; 40-41
Résumé : Le silence rythme la vie de Psyché et de Lucius à partir du moment où les deux
personnages rencontrent le divin (respectivement, Met. 6 et 11). Ce silence peut prendre sa
source dans l'enseignement de Pythagore qui représentait l'idéal philosophique d'Apulée
(voir aussi l'article noté 81-00295)
Rocconi, E. The aesthetic value of music in Platonic thought
p 113-132
Recueil : Aesthetic value in classical antiquity
Aesthetic value in classical antiquity / ed. by Ineke Sluiter, Ralph M. Rosen
Leiden ; Boston (Mass.) : Brill, 2012. Collection(s) : Mnemosyne. Supplementum ; 350
Summary: Apart from late and controversial references to early Pythagoreanism, the most
ancient and authoritative source on the psychagogic power of music is Plato, namely in
« Republic » and « Laws ». Plato established important premises for subsequent theoretical
speculation on the beauty and expressiveness of music, even if he does not seem to have
elaborated an artistic conception according to which its aesthetic value might be evaluated
independently of ethical and educational ones.
Saetta Cottone, R. Nuvole e demoni : Empedocle e Socrate nelle « Nuvole » di Aristofane
p 315-335
In: La storia sulla scena : quello che gli storici antichi non hanno raccontato / a cura di Anna
Beltrametti
Roma : Carocci, 2011. Collection(s) : Studi superiori ; 646
Résumé : Si considera l'ipotesi secondo cui il coro delle « Nuvole » avrebbe come fonte di
ispirazione le teorie filosofiche di Empedocle, rivestendo il ruolo di Muse di una nuova
categoria di poeti-filosofi empedoclei : si analizza in particolare il canto iniziale della parodo
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Saffrey, H.D. Hypatie d’Alexandrie
p 376-383
In: C. Méla, F. Möri Alexandrie la divine, Neuchâtel, La Baconnière, 2014, 2 vol.
Scott, I.W. The divine wanderer : travel and divinization in late antiquity p 101-121
In: Travel and religion in antiquity / Philip A. Harland, ed.
Waterloo (Ont.) : Wilfrid Laurier University Pr., 2011. Studies in Christianity and Judaism =
Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme ; 21
Résumé : On the ways in which travel functions in the lives of four divinized human beings as
they are depicted in sources from the 2nd to the early 4th cent. A.D. : Philostratus' biography
of Apollonius of Tyana, the lives of Pythagoras by Porphyry and Iamblichus, and Lucian's
satirical attacks on Alexander of Abonuteichos and Peregrinus Proteus.
Sisko, J. 4. Anaxagoras and Empedocles in the shadow of Elea
In: Routledge companion to ancient philosophy / edited by James Warren and Frisbee
Sheffield. 2014. ISBN: 0-415-99126-9
New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. Reeks: Routledge philosophy companions
Trutty-Coohill, P. Pythagoras in the Sacred Cosmos of Chartres Cathedral p 37-56
In: Analecta husserliana. The yearbook of phenomenological research ... Edited by AnnaTeresa Tymieniecka. vol. 1, etc.; Phenomenology of space and time: the forces of the
cosmos and the ontopoietic genesis of life : book two
Paris, 2012; Aug, 2014, -- Cham; Springer; 2014.
Vatai, F. 2. Pythagoras and the Pre-Socratics; From the Seven Sages to Pythagoras;
Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism; Archytas and Empedocles
In: Intellectuals in Politics in the Greek World (Routledge Revivals): From Early Times to the
Hellenistic Age.
Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781317749745
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p 56-87
In: Philoponus. On Aristotle's On coming-to-be and perishing 1.6-2.4.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2014. ISBN 9781780938769
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Gruyter, 2013.
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Phillip Sidney Horky, Plato and Pythagoreanism. Oxford; New York: Oxford
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Benitez, E.
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Petrucci, F.M.
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Trépanier, S.
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Weinman, M..
Archai. 2014, 13, p 165-170
Sarah B. Pomeroy, Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
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Brodersen, K.
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Journal of the history of philosophy, 2014,
52, 4, p 840-841
Leonid Zhmud, Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. (Translated from
Russian by Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland; first published 1994). Oxford; New
York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Reviewed by:
Giangiulio, M.
www.sehepunkte.de 2013,13, 9
Reviewed by:
Huffman, C.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.08.30
Reviewed by:
McKirihan, R.
Archai. 2014, 13, p 161-164
Reviewed by:
McKirahan, R.D.
The classical world. 2014,107, 4, p 564-565
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Les Études philosophiques. 2014, 110, 3
Empédocle, Aristote, Rickert
Marwan Rashed, La chronographie du
système d'Empédocle : addenda et
corrigenda
p 315 – 342
Résumé: Le présent article est consacré
à la réédition et, pour certaines d’entre
elles, à l’édition de scholies byzantines
comportant des données chiffrées sur les
périodes du cycle d’Empédocle. Celles-ci
ont été copiées au xiie siècle sous forme
de gloses à différents traités d’Aristote. On
s’attachera à démontrer la cohérence
interne de ces nouveaux renseignements,
leur compatibilité avec les fragments
conservés du poème Sur la nature et,
enfin, on suggérera un canal possible de
transmission.
Jean-Claude Picot, Un nom énigmatique
de l'air chez Empédocle (fr. 21.4 DK)
p 343 – 373
Résumé: Le début du fr. 21 DK
d’Empédocle concerne les manifestations
des quatre éléments dans le monde
autour de nous. D’après le contexte, le
référent de l’adjectif substantivé ambrota,
au vers 4, concernerait l’air ou quelque
chose intimement lié à l’air. Le mot
ambrota se trouve enchâssé dans un
développement sur le soleil, qui suggère le
passage homérique du voile d’Héra d’un
blanc éclatant comme le soleil. À partir de
là et grâce à l’interprétation livrée par
Aétius selon laquelle la racine divine Héra,
chez Empédocle, est l’air, il vient que les
ambrota, souvent associés à heimata (les
vêtements immortels) dans les vers
épiques, désigneraient une Héra vêtue.
Les vêtements qui dissimulent Héra, la
déesse qu’il faut associer aux ambrota,
seraient les nuages blancs,
essentiellement faits d’air. L’explication
repose sur une matrice thématique inscrite
dans des vers épiques. Une présentation
du chœur des Nuées d’Aristophane
apporterait un écho à la conception
empédocléenne des ambrota compris
comme des nuages blancs.
Riccardo Chiaradonna, La chair et le
bronze. Remarques sur Métaphysique Z,
11 et l'interprétation de M. Frede et G.
Patzig
p 375 – 388
!
Résumé: Cet article porte sur
Métaphysique, Z, 11. On examine en
particulier la lecture par Frede et Patzig de
la première partie de ce chapitre. Selon
ces derniers, Aristote affirme : (1) que les
définitions des substances naturelles sont
exprimées à partir de leur forme et que
toute référence à la matière doit être
exclue de la définition ; (2) que les formes
naturelles sont néanmoins liées de
manière nécessaire et interne à un certain
type de matière, car elles ne peuvent
exister sans certaines parties matérielles.
En réalité, une lecture attentive du
chapitre ne permet de soutenir ni (1) ni (2).
Un être humain ne diffère pas d’un cercle
de bronze en raison de son instantiation
nécessaire dans un certain type de
matière. La différence consiste plutôt dans
l’existence de parties fonctionnelles. Les
parties fonctionnelles peuvent être
mentionnées, en tant qu’elles sont
fonctionnelles, dans la définition formelle
des substances naturelles.
Marc de Launay, Présentation
p 389 – 392
Heinrich Rickert, L'un, l'unité, le un.
Remarques sur la logique du concept de
nombre
p 393 – 455
Résumé: Cette étude de 1911, remaniée
en 1924, est consacrée à « la logique du
concept de nombre », et, plus précisément
à une distinction, poursuivie à travers une
analyse de l’« un », du signe « égal », du
signe « plus » et de la notion de « série »,
entre deux domaines de compétence :
Rickert veut limiter celui de la logique en
montrant que les mathématiques
comportent un élément « alogique » qui ne
relève pas de la logique pure et qui est
indispensable à leur formation comme à
leur démarche. Il s’agit donc d’une critique
du logicisme, qui vise Frege et, surtout,
Natorp, mais qui s’arrête pour ainsi dire au
seuil du constructivisme tout en lui
fournissant un possible point de départ.
Christian Berner, Études critiques
p 461 – 465
Ruedi Imbach. Une « blessure de la
pensée » ? Les Cahiers noirs de
Heidegger interprétés par leur éditeur
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Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana
Classical journal. 2014, 109, 4, p 465-480
Summary: While the travel narrative in
Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana
has been the subject of much scholarly
commentary, little has been said about the
geography created by those travels. This
paper examines the representation of
Paraca, Greece, and Rome to
demonstrate how Philostratus reverses the
traditional Greek view of center and
periphery. In his figuration, the extreme
geographic periphery of Paraca becomes
the center of civilization, whereas the
traditional center of Rome is
reconceptualized as a dangerous
periphery. This reversal supports
Philostratus' larger commentary on the
loss of self-knowledge in the Greek world
and its consequences.
Infine, anche l'opera cosmologica è
fortemente imbevuta di un afflato religioso
Andreoni Fontecedro, E. Sul filo della
memoria : il misticismo di Pitagora in
Lucrezio e Thomas Gray in onore di
Epicuro e Locke
Paideia. 2011, 66, p 405-411
Résumé : Il « te sequor » nell'elogio di
Epicuro nel terzo libro del « De rerum
natura », riprendendo l' ἄκουσµα
pitagorico ἕπου θεῷ, conferisce al testo
lucreziano una particolare intensità
religiosa. La sequenza sarà più tardi
riutilizzata con sottile arte allusiva dal
poeta inglese per la lode del filosofo
empirista
Aguirre, J. La crítica de Aristóteles y
Teofrasto a la concepción ígnea del ojo
Emerita. 2012, 80, p 89-106
Résumé : Aristóteles en « De sensu » y
Teofrasto en « De sensibus » subrayan
que la mayoría de los que se han
dedicado a estudiar la percepción visual
desarrollan doctrinas que identifican la
visión con el fuego. Ambos filósofos
rechazan tales doctrinas, y
particularmente la concepción ígnea del
ojo en las que se basan. Ambos analizan
críticamente las doctrinas de Alcmeón,
Empédocles y Platón, y frente a ellos
Aristóteles defiende la naturaleza acuosa
del ojo y una doctrina de la percepción
visual centrada en el carácter diáfano del
medio acuoso.
Azevedo, M.T.S. de O « Sonho de
Cipião » e a catábase virgiliana :
pressupostos literários e filosóficos
Humanitas (Coimbra).
2011, 63, p 239-257
Résumé : Con respecto al « Somnium
Scipionis » de Cicerón, la posterior
« catábasis » de la « Eneida » de Virgilio
presenta una original interdependencia en
cuanto a la visión del Más allá y al ideal
estoico del « héroe cívico », aplicado a los
personajes eminentes de la historia
romana. Pese a esta relación intertextual,
entre ambos textos se dan diferencias de
fondo, que responden, ya sea a los
modelos literarios griegos que
formalmente los inspiran, ya sea al
diferente peso que tienen en cada uno las
principales corrientes filosófico-religiosas :
el orfismo-pitagorismo, el dualismo
zoroástrico y el misticismo astral, cuya
recepción se analiza.
Ambrosano, G. Cosmologia e
daimonologia in Empedocle
Incidenza dell’Antico : dialoghi di storia
greca. 2011, 9, p 101-121
Résumé : Ricerca sui possibili
collegamenti strutturali e motivi di
omogeneità fra lo scritto « Sulla natura » e
le « Purificazioni » di Empedocle. Un
primo motivo di continuità è rintracciato
nella struttura narrativa che, in entrambe
le opere, sarebbe caratterizzata da una
ciclicità sviluppata attraverso tre momenti
dialettici. Un secondo motivo andrebbe
visto nella sostanziale continuità stilistica.
Belousov, A. ON SOME POSSIBLE
SOURCES FOR PHILOSTRATUS' VITA
APOLLONII 3.34.
Classical Quarterly.
2014, 64, 2, p 787-792
Summary: The doctrine contained in this
extract – the only passage of The Life of
Apollonius of Tyana treating matters of
‘cosmogony’ – could be summarized in the
six following propositions. First, the
universe consists of five, not four
elements, the fifth being the ether, the
γένεσις θεῶν. Just as mortals breathe air,
gods breathe ether. Secondly, there is no
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being simultaneously. Thirdly, the universe
is a living being. In the fourth place, the
universe is both male and female at the
same time. In the fifth place, as the
universe is androgynous it feels desire
(ἔρως) towards itself and it is this desire
that makes it whole and united. And finally,
the passion of the universe for itself is
governed by Intelligence (ἐκείνου νοῦς).
access to it through Greek manuscripts
from around 1462; his Latin translation of
theEnneadswas published in 1492. The
article argues that in his commentary on
Plato'sSymposium, completed in 1469,
Ficino made use of Plotinian ethics and
bypassed the monastic interpretation,
which Plotinian virtue ethics had received
from medieval theologians and
philosophers. Ficino thus re-interpreted
the Plotinian theory in a more worldly
manner, making the so-called higher
virtues accessible to humans outside
religious institutions, attained by their
natural constitution.
Benjamin, W. Defending Hypatia: Ramus,
Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery
of Mathematical History.
Annals of Science. 2014, 71, 1, p 138-140.
Boter, G. Studies in the textual tradition of
Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
Revue D'histoire Des Textes.
2014, 9, p 1-49.
Cornelli, G. Tudo é número no
pitagorismo antigo?
Classica. 2013, 26, p 11-28
ABSTRACT: The question, “All is
number?”, significantly the title of Zhmud’s
famous 1989 article in Phronesis, opens a
challenge to the extremely important
Aristotelian testimony that “all is number”
was the fundamental definition of
Pythagorean philosophy. Such a challenge
is anything but easy, especially when one
considers that, so far, the histories of both
ancient philosophy and ancient
mathematics seemed to have no doubts
that this definition was correct. This paper
aims to submit Aristotle’s claim that the
Pythagoreans believed that
“all is number” to critical review. Our
analysis of the many ways that Aristotle
states the thesis “all is number” will reveal,
beyond merely semantic variations, a
fundamental theoretical contradiction that
Aristotle himself seems incapable of
solving.
Bouwman, W. Philosophy's Roots and
Branches. Will Bouwman on how Thales,
Anaximander, Pythagoras, Parmenides &
Zeno established empiricism, maths &
logic as dominant features of Western
thinking
Philosophy Now. 2014, p 6-9
Catana, L. Readings of Platonic Virtue
Theories from the Middle Ages to the
Renaissance: The Case of Marsilio
Ficino's De amore.
British Journal for the History of
Philosophy. 2014, 22, 4, p 680-703
Summary: It is commonly known that
ancient schools of ethics were revived
during the Renaissance: The texts
pertaining to Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic
and Epicurean ethics were edited,
translated and discussed in this period. It
is less known that the Renaissance also
witnessed a revival of Plotinian ethics, by
then perceived as a legitimate form of
Platonic ethics. Plotinus' ethics had been
transmitted through the Middle Ages
through Macrobius' Latin treatiseIn
somnium ScipionisI.8, which relied heavily
on Plotinus' student, Porphyry, and his
report of Plotinus' ethics. In this article it is
argued that the Florentine humanist and
philosopher Marsilio Ficino carried on this
tradition of Platonic, or rather Plotinian,
ethics. He was familiar with
Plotinus'Enneads, since he had had
!
Del Giovane, B. Seneca, Scipione e
l'ombra di Cicerone : a proposito
dell'epistola 86
Prometheus. 2012, p 155-174
Résumé : In Sen. ep. 86 sembrano
rintracciabili echi ciceroniani sia
nell'« incipit » (dal « De senectute ») che
nel ritratto di Scipione l'Africano (dal
« Somnium Scipionis »)
DOMARADZKI, M. Sull’allegoresi
simbolica del primo pitagorismo
PEITHO / EXAMINA ANTIQUA.
2013. 1, 4, p 93-
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Abstract: The present paper argues that
the early Pythagoreans contributed
significantly to the development of ancient
hermeneutics. The article builds on the
assumption that even if the thinkers did
not deal with allegoresis directly, the very
manner of articulating their thought was,
nevertheless, quite conducive to the
growth of allegorical interpretation. Thus,
at least indirectly, Pythagoreanism must
have played an important role in the
development of allegoresis. The paper
identifies two crucial aspects of
Pythagorean influence on the allegorical
tradition. Firstly, the Pythagoreans made a
very specific use of the poetry of Homer
and Hesiod as well as of the traditional
mythology in general. Secondly, the
teachings of Pythagoras were expressed
in terms of various ambiguous symbols
that required special exegesis. Both these
factors must have contributed
considerably to the development of
allegoresis: the idiosyncratic use of
conventional mythology, on the one hand,
and the enigmatic nature of the
Pythagorean symbols, on the other, must
have provoked extensive search for the
latent (i.e., “allegorical”) meaning of the
“messages” in question.
abgeschrieben hat, muss Eulogius der
Rezipient sein.
Drozdek, A. Alcmaeon and the immortality
of the soul
Maia. 2012. 64. P 429-437
Résumé : Dall'analisi delle fonti
pitagoriche emergono la concezione
alcmeonea di un'anima immortale e in
perpetuo movimento e una teoria degli
opposti ; sembra inoltre che il filosofo si
opponesse alla teoria pitagorica della
reincarnazione
Eckhardt, B. "Bloodless Sacrifice": A Note
on Greek Cultic Language in the Imperial
Era.
Greek, Roman & Byzantine Studies.
2014, 54, 2, p 255-273
Summary: The article discusses the term
"bloodless sacrifice" and explores its use,
as well as the use of sacrifice, in the early
Christian and pagan religions. Topics
discussed include Pythagoreanism,
discussions of the use of animal sacrifice
in Rome and various religions, and the
eating of vegetarian meals as examples of
bloodless sacrifices.
Edge, J. Licit medicine or 'Pythagorean
necromancy'? The 'Sphere of Life and
Death' in late medieval England.
Historical Research.
2014, 87, 238, ,p 611-632
Summary: The ' Sphere of Life and Death'
is an onomantic divinatory device present
in around sixty-two manuscripts of late
medieval English provenance. It is an
example of illicit divination, and as such is
condemned in various theological and
legal tracts. However, at the same time,
one of the most frequent manuscript
contexts of this device is medical, as it
claims to predict the life or death of a sick
person. This article aims to show that the '
Sphere' was at the same time both licit
medicine and illicit divination, and that we
must take a less rigid approach to the
categorization of such devices.
Dorfbauer, L.J. Favonius Eulogius, der
früheste Leser des Calcidius ?
Hermes. 2011, 139, p 376-394
Résumé : Calcidius' « Timaios »Kommentar, von dem man annahm, er sei
erst von Macrobius rezipiert worden,
wurde schon von Eulogius in seinem
Kommentar zu Ciceros
« Somnium Scipionis » benutzt. Dies wird
aus dem Vergleich der Texte Calc. 44 und
Fav. Eul. 22 deutlich, die sich beide an
Theon von Smyrna anlehnen, der
wiederum Adrast von Aphrodisias als
Gewährsmann angibt. Gemeinsame
Auslassungen und Fehler beweisen, dass
Calcidius und Eulogius Theon nicht
unabhängig voneinander benutzt haben
können ; ebenfalls unwahrscheinlich ist
eine unabhängige Benutzung des verloren
gegangenen Adrast-Kommentars, zumal
von einer lateinischen Version davon
nichts bekannt ist. Da sowohl sprachliche
als auch sachliche Gründe dagegen
sprechen, dass Calcidius von Eulogius
!
Eramo, I. Un gioiello è per sempre ? :
nota a Stobeo III, 5, 37 e IV, 23, 54
Invigilata lucernis. 2012, 34, p 99-112
Résumé : Il tema della virtù maschile
associata a gioielli e preziosi è ricorrente
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coniugale e sulle figure muliebri. L'analisi
qui condotta parte da Stob. 3, 5, 37 e 4,
23, 54 per poi toccare altri « exempla »
(tra cui la figura di Cornelia) e soffermarsi
sul concetto di κόσµος nei testi pitagorici e
nei « Coniugalia praecepta » di Plutarco.
Farrell, J. Looking for Empedocles in Latin
Poetry 11 pages
Dictynna. 2014, 11.
http://dictynna.revues.org/
Résumé: Motifs such as "harmony,"
"concord," and "the four elements" are
very common in Latin poetry, but they may
not always indicate a specifically
Empedoclean. Words like "concordia" and
"discordia" appear frequently in contexts
where domestic or civic harmony and
disharmony are at issue, but where
philosophy of any sort is not. The four
elements generally do occur in contexts
that are philosophical, whether in a direct,
metaphorical, or even a parodic sense; but
the conception of the physical world as
comprised by earth, air, fire, and water
was common to many philosophical
schools, including Stoicism, which was
much more familiar than Empedocleanism
as a philosophical sect to Romans of all
periods. Specifically Empedoclean motifs
often do appear during the last half of the
first century BC. This can be explained by
the politicization of the cult of Venus,
particularly as the divine ancestress of the
gens Iulia. In combination with the
importance of Venus' consort Mars as the
father of Romulus, these divinities invited
allegorization as Empedoclean "Love" and
"Strife" governing the four elements as a
symbol of Roman, and especially Julian,
governance of world affairs. On the other
hand, both before and after the gens Iulia
was in its political ascendancy (i.e. for
most of the Republican period before the
rise of Julius Caesar himself, and for most
of the Imperial period after the fall of the
Julio-Claudian dynasty, if not indeed after
the end of Augustus' reign, i.e. that of the
most self-consciously "Julian" of
emperors), the particular relevance of
Venus/Love and Mars/Strife to major
political interests, and so a specifically
Empedoclean conception of Roman global
hegemony, held much less appeal. In view
of these facts, it makes sense to assess
apparently Empedoclean motifs in Latin
poetry not as essential or even
conventional ingredients of any particular
genre, but in terms of their relevance to
prevailing cultural circumstances at any
given time.
Evans, R.J. 'The capture of Sybaris (510
BC) and the siege of Mantinea: History
repeated?'.
Acta Classica. 2014, 57.
Strabo states that Sybaris was situated
between the Crathis and Sybaris rivers
and had walls which extended for fifty
stadia (5.7 miles or 9.2 kilometres), and
that a war between this city and Croton,
lasting just seventy days, resulted in its
complete destruction. The ancient
sources, such as they are, are unanimous
in their estimation that this community was
destroyed on account of its citizens'
addiction to a luxurious lifestyle and for an
utter disregard for the gods (Strabo 6.1.13;
Athenaeus 12.521c-f).
Fabre-Serris, J. La réception
d’Empédocle dans la poésie latine: Virgile
(Buc. 6), Lucrèce, Gallus et les poètes
élégiaques
Dictynna. 2014, 11.
http://dictynna.revues.org/
Résumé: Ce papier vise à montrer, à
partir d’une série d’analyses de textes de
Virgile, de Lucrèce et des poètes
élégiaques, que la lecture faite par Gallus,
non d’Empédocle directement, mais de la
réception de ce dernier chez Lucrèce a
joué un rôle fondamental dans la genèse
de grands motifs élégiaques. À ceux du
furor et de l’absence de remèdes à
l’amour,on peut ajouter en effet le
déploiement de deux des étymologies de
Vénus exploitées par Lucrèce dans sa
version de l’épisode homérique des
amours de Mars et de Vénus perçu par les
Anciens comme empédocléen : uincere et
uincire. La première étymologie a donné
lieu à la thématique de la victoire de
l’amour et des combats de Vénus opposés
aux guerres menées par les Romains, la
seconde à celle de la première nuit
d’amour, qui ‘lie’ les amants et initie le
début de foedera souhaités pérennes mais
soumis à d’incessantes fluctuations.
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Virgil's Doomed Sailors and the Archytas
Ode of Horace
Maia : rivista di letterature classiche.
2014, 66, 1, p 84-96
Grossardt, P. Die zweite Reise des
Odysseus in Lukians « Verae Historiae »
Philologus. 2011, 155, p 125-145
Résumé : Die Abreise des Ich-Erzählers
von der Insel der Seligen zum neuen
Kontinent übernimmt Züge der zweiten
Reise des Odysseus, wobei sich auch
Motive der « Odyssee » wiederfinden.
Man kann die Insel der Seligen annähernd
mit Ithaka, Teiresias' Prophezeiung einer
neuen Reise für Odysseus mit
Rhadamanthys' Weisung an den IchErzähler gleichsetzen. Zudem finden sich
Anspielungen auf die pythagoreische
Lehre ; insbesondere scheint der neue
Kontinent pythagoreisches Hoheitsgebiet
zu sein. Lukian nimmt allegorische
Deutungen des Odysseus-Mythos,
insbesondere die seines Zeitgenossen
Numenios, auf
Friberg, J. Seven-sided star figures and
tuning algorithms in Mesopotamian,
Greek, and Islamic texts
Archiv für Orientforschung.
2011, 52, p 121-155
Summary: Mit kurzer Präsentation der
wichtigsten Quellen zur griechischen
Musiktheorie der Antike ; insbesondere zu
Pythagoras, Platon, Euklid und Ptolemaios
Galimberti, A. La vita di apollonio di tiana
e caracalla: Cronologia e contesto storico.
Aevum - Rassegna Di Scienze Storiche
Linguistiche E Filologiche.
2014, 88, 1, p 125-136.
Heinz, W. Die Architektur des römischen
Thermalbades von Badenweiler und die
Achtzahl
Symbolon. 2012. 18, p 261-292
Summary: Eine Neurekonstruktion des
ersten Bauzustandes (späteres 1. Jh.
n. Chr.) verdient wegen der Geometrie des
Entwurfs Beachtung. Insbesondere ist ein
Rückgriff auf pythagoräische Traditionen
festzustellen. Dabei spielt die Achtzahl
eine besondere Rolle, die in
verschiedenen Kulturkreisen mit hohem
Bedeutungsgehalt in kosmologischen und
soteriologischen Zusammenhängen
auftritt. Insgesamt lässt sich der Achtzahl
ein eschatologischer Wesenszug
zuschreiben. Eine der ältesten Taufstätten
(Lateranbaptisterium in Rom ; frühes
4. Jh.) wurde nicht zuerst kreisförmig,
sondern von Anfang an als Oktogon
gebaut.
Garrido Domené, F. Lo que vibra es el
yunque : análisis de Nicom. Harm. VI,
pp. 245.18-248.26
Cuadernos de filología clásica. Estudios
griegos e indoeuropeos.
2012, 22, p 127-140
Résumé : La primera y más antigua
versión de la leyenda de los martillos
pitagóricos en su forma completa fue
redactada por Nicómaco de Gerasa. En
ella, se describen las distintas relaciones
numéricas que definen los intervalos
musicales, lo que permite un análisis de
estilo y de contenido del todo original : de
estilo, porque este cambia respecto a los
demás capítulos del tratado musical
nicomaqueo en virtud de un fin claramente
didáctico, y de contenido porque, en la
minuciosa descripción de los distintos
pasos del experimento pitagórico llevado a
cabo con los martillos y los pesos en los
extremos de las cuerdas, se entreven
unas conclusiones que no son del todo
exactas ni para la tensión ni para la
percusión.
Hernández de la Fuente, D. Pitágoras
como adivino: religión y política en la
Magna Grecia.
Potestas. 2013, 6, p 5-25
Abstract: Amongst all the facets of the
Greek philosopher Pythagoras of Samos,
some of them seemingly contradictory, a
certain number of ancient sources credited
him with great authority on prophetic arts.
The political activities and influence of his
School in Magna Graecia were also often
highlighted in many ways. In this
Ghidini, C. In memory of Giovanni
Pugliese Carratelli
Antiquorum philosophia.
2010, 4, p 203-210
Résumé : Sugli interessi dello studioso
italiano (1911-2010) per i testi orfici e
pitagorici e per il buddismo originale
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figure of Pythagoras as a soothsayer in
Magna Graecia, in order to research the
possible relation between these two
aspects of his activity. On the one hand
we will discuss a number of examples of
Pythagoras’ prophetic power, analyzing
the literary and iconographic evidence. On
the other hand, we will examine the
possible political implications of such
function. If our hypothesis is confirmed, we
could open a research line on the
interdependencies between the prophetic
art traditionally ascribed to Pythagoras and
his assumed political influence, according
to a pattern of religious and political
leadership attested in Ancient Greek
history.
Harpocration, Plotin et Porphyre, attribuent
cette responsabilité à un élément extérieur
à l'âme rationnelle, à savoir
respectivement la matière, le corps, la
nature et la vie irrationnelle. Ainsi
présentée, la pensée de Numénius telle
que la reflète ce témoignage s'intègre plus
dans un cadre platonicien qu'elle ne s'en
distingue par des influences orientales.
L'exemple du fragment 43 suggère la
nécessité de revoir les principes de
présentation des textes transmettant la
pensée de Numénius. La distinction entre
fragments et témoignages, voire
l'introduction d'une troisième catégorie
pour les paraphrases mêlées de courtes
citations, ainsi que la restitution du cadre
de transmission de ces passages
répondraient davantage aux exigences
d'une lecture avertie. Elles fourniraient en
effet les moyens d'évaluer ce qui relève de
l'appropriation doxographique et ce qui
appartient effectivement à la pensée de
Numénius.
Jourdan, F. Le fragment 43 (des Places)
de Numénius : problèmes de présentation,
essais d’interprétation
Les etudes platoniciennes. 2013, p
Summary: La présentation des fragments
et témoignages transmettant la pensée de
Numénius place les éditeurs face à des
choix difficiles. L'ordre attribué aux textes
est décisif dans l'image du philosophe qu'il
s'agit de donner aux lecteurs. Une simple
coupe dans un témoignage peut déformer
gravement le sens du propos rapporté par
le citateur ou doxographe ancien. Une
telle déformation peut parfois aller si loin
qu'elle transforme Numénius en défenseur
de doctrines qu'il n'a peut-être jamais
soutenues. L' étude du fragment 43 tel
qu'il est présenté dans l'édition d'Édouard
des Places (1973) en convainc. Le texte
comporte en effet une rupture à peine
signalée qui a longtemps contribué à une
lecture de ses deux parties hors de leur
contexte. Par suite, la seconde, de fait
considérée pour elle-même, a souvent
conduit à penser que Numénius défendait
une doctrine originale, attribuant la cause
du mal à des « appendices » venus de
l'extérieur — doctrine qui serait alors
étroitement proche des positions
soutenues par le gnostique Basilide. Or,
replacé dans son contexte, le passage
délivre un enseignement différent.
Jamblique, qui en est la source, oppose
les philosophes situant la responsabilité
de l'incarnation dans l'âme rationnelle ellemême à ceux qui, tels Numénius,
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Kemezis, A. Roman Politics and the
Fictional Narrator in Philostratus'
Apollonius
Classical Antiquity. 2014, 33, 1,p. 61-101
Abstract: Philostratus' eight-book work on
Apollonius of Tyana begins with an
elaborate frame narrative in which the
narrator describes how the empress Julia
Domna commissioned him to edit a
recently discovered authoritative account
of that sage's career, written by one his
disciples. This narrative has clear marks of
conscious fictionality, and identifies the
Apollonius with such pseudepigraphic
works as Dictys Cretensis and The
Wonders beyond Thule. This article will
explore how this claim functions within
Philostratus' larger narrative selfpresentation. Philostratus in effect
presents the reader with two models of
how one obtains authoritative knowledge
about cultural phenomena. The first is
seen in the frame narrative, and involves
single key texts authorized by politically
powerful figures. The second is seen in
the rest of the narrative, and involves
wide-ranging research and critical
argument by cultural professionals such as
the narrator himself. Philostratus, although
he would appear more to endorse the
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both. The tension thus created is crucial to
Philostratus' portrait of his protagonist's
ambiguously human or divine status. It
also has a key political component,
however, inasmuch as various members
of the Severan dynasty, like Philostratus'
Julia, were claiming for themselves the
power both to re-write political history and
to redefine their status within GrecoRoman cultural discourse. The frame
narrative and narratorial persona of the
Apollonius are a uniquely sophistic
reflection on the relationship of political
power to Hellenic paideia.
Lloyd, G. The Myth of Plato’s Socratic
Period.
Archiv Für Geschichte Der Philosophie,
2014, 96, 4, p 403-430.
A hypothesis first proposed in the
nineteenth century has since the middle of
the twentieth century been approaching
mythical status. It is the hypothesis that in
the course of Plato’s philosophical
‘development’, he passed through a
‘Socratic period’ in which he was
principally devoted to representing the
philosophy of the historical Socrates rather
than his own. This Socratic philosophy is
found in the so-called early dialogues and
is sometimes called ‘Socratic
intellectualism’. According to the myth,
Plato only developed and wrote down his
own philosophical position in the middle
and late dialogues. In this paper, I
challenge the myth, arguing that there is
no external evidence to support the initial
hypothesis and significant evidence for
rejecting it. In fact, Plato was probably in
some sense a proponent of
Pythagoreanism and a ‘two-world
metaphysics’ well before he wrote
anything. The claim that, external
evidence notwithstanding, the early
dialogues actually contain a philosophical
position substantially different from that of
later dialogues is also unfounded.
Although Plato’s thought continually
developed within the context of ongoing
Academic discussions, nowhere in any of
the dialogues is Plato’s ‘otherworldy’
revisionist philosophy absent.
Kruk, K. Arystotelesowska krytyka
poglądów Empedoklesa na powstanie
życia.
Rocznik Filozoficzny Ignatianum.
2014, p 111-120.
Laudani, C. Il « pitagorismo celato » della
« Cena Trimalchionis »
Bollettino di studi latini.
2009, 39, p 447-473
Résumé : La ricorrenza del numero 4 nella
sezione dedicata al « ferculum » dello
zodiaco può essere letta come
un'allusione al pitagorismo
Levi, N. L’Épicharme et le prologue des
Annales d’Ennius, ou les débuts de la
révélation pythagoricienne dans la
littérature latine
VITA LATINA. 2013, 187-188, p 18-38
Cet article montre comment, dans deux
textes d’Ennius, l’opuscule intitulé
Epicharmus et le prologue des Annales,
l’expérience du songe de révélation sert
de support à l’exposé de certains aspects
de la philosophie pythagoricienne (la
doctrine des éléments, la métempsycose).
Ce faisant, ce travail se propose de faire
mieux connaître des textes fragmentaires
peu étudiés en France, qui sont cependant
importants dans l’histoire des idées,
notamment en raison de la postérité, dans
la littérature latine, de cette alliance entre
le paradigme apocalyptique et la
philosophie pythagoricienne.
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Malgieri, E. « Littera Pythagorae in
imagine »
Ostraka. 2009, 18, p 415-426 ill.
Résumé : Fortuna letteraria ed
iconografica del « γράµµα φιλόσοφον Υ »,
associato in antico a Pitagora e simbolo
delle due strade divergenti della vita, la via
del vizio e quella della virtù : suo percorso
semantico in ambito profano e cristiano
dal 1° secolo a.C. all'Umanesimo.
Martín Martín, M. F. Nuevas perspectivas
en la historia de la estética musical: El
pensamiento de Pitágoras y los
pitagóricos—Una historia de la estética
heterodoxa y "políticamente" correcta
Síneris: Revista de musicología.
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Abstract: Presents an overview of
Pythagorean aesthetics.
URL:
http://www.sineris.es/pitagoricos.html
Neoplatonists, Presocratics, who were not
far from the truth, employed an inaccurate
and ambiguous language, whereas Plato
spoke about the truth in a more
appropriate and clear way. That is why the
Presocratics are not necessarily erroneous
and their theoretical originality and their
terminology can be incorporated into the
Neoplatonic philosophy. I would like to
show how some Presocratic theories are
embedded in the Neoplatonic
metaphysical system of the three
Hypostases. Regarding the One and the
Intellect, Plotinus, Proclus and the Anonymous Author of the Prolegomena to
Platonic Philosophy read and employ
some Presocratic texts in order to
harmonize the Platonic and the
Presocratic accounts. Although the
Neoplatonists see themselves as
continuing the Greek philosophical
tradition started by the Presocratics, their
interpretation of Presocratic thought
illustrates the birth of exeget- ic philosophy
which is able to apply ancient concepts
and predicates to its own metaphysical
theory.
Martínez Astorino, P. Numa y la
construcción poética de la historia en
« Las metamorfosis » de Ovidio
Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica.
2012, 102, p 149-164
Résumé : Il breve passo dedicato a Numa
nelle « Metamorfosi » (1, 76) può
intendersi come anello di congiunzione tra
l'immagine del « sanctius animal »,
impersonato da Pitagora, e Augusto,
attraverso la « pax », ideale condiviso
dalle tre figure.
McGowan, M.M. What distinguishes
Ovid’s Pythagoras from the Pythagoras of
Ausonius and Martianus Capella?
Anabases. Traditions et réception de
l'antiquité. 2014, 1, p 189-204
Mele, A. Metaponto tra VI e V secolo
Mediterraneo antico : economie, società,
culture. 2010, 13, p 173-206
Résumé : Indagine sulla storia di
Metaponto, con particolare attenzione per
la guerra contro Siris, la tradizione che
testimonia la presenza della tirannide,
Pitagora e la sua scuola, il caratteristico
culto di Apollo Iperboreo e i ritrovamenti
archeologici
Nelis, D.P. Empedoclean epic: how far
can you go? 10 pages,
Dictynna. 2014, 11.
http://dictynna.revues.org/
Résumé: This paper attempts to take one
step further the argument of P.R. Hardie’s
1995 article in Classical Quarterly, entitled
‘The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid
Metamorphoses 15: Empedoclean Epos’,
by showing that Lucan can be fitted easily
into a version of Latin literary history that
privileges the presence of recurring
Empedoclean influence.
Miller, M.C.J. The Visit of Apollonius of
Tyana to Taxila
The ancient world. 2014, 45, 1, p 54-60
Morillas, J. En busca de Hypatía: Análisis
e interpretación de las fuentes
tardoantiguas conservadas en torno a la
maestra alejandrina.
Daimon. 2014, 62, p 157-164.
O'Brien, D. Empedocles' mountain path :
(fr. 24)
Elenchos. 2012, 33, p 301-333
Résumé : L'analisi di Plutarco, Mor. 418c,
contesto in cui è citato il frammento,
permette di ricostruire quale funzione i
versi citati avessero nel poema di
Empedocle
MOTTA, A. Gli antecedenti storici del
Platonismo: il ruolo dei Presocratici
secondo i Neoplatonici
PEITHO / EXAMINA ANTIQUA.
2014, 1, 5, p 43-58
Abstr: One of the aims of the
Neoplatonists is to demonstrate that
ancient Presocratic thought is, in fact, a
Preplatonic thought. According to the
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O'Conaill, D. Ontic Structural Realism and
Concrete Objects.
Philosophical Quarterly.
2014, 64, 255, p 284-300
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Abstract: Ontic structural realism (OSR)
claims that reality is fundamentally
structural. One way of developing this
position is the claim that the identities of
objects are determined by their positions
in the structures to which they belong. This
raises worries particularly with regard to
the identity of concrete objects. In this
paper, I examine whether the structures
on which concrete objects are dependent
should themselves be thought of as
concrete or abstract. I consider some of
the ways in which these structures could
be distinguished and argue that the
structuralist must appeal to non-structural
features to do so. I also consider some
problems associated with a Pythagorean
OSR which abandons this distinction.
Picot, J.C. EMPEDOCLES VS.
XENOPHANES: DIFFERING NOTIONS
OF THE DIVINE
ORGANON. 2013, 45, p 5-19
Conclusion: We need to stay on guard
against modernizing Empedocles, against
suppressing the most archaic aspects of
his thought, no matter how quaint they
may appear to us. When it comes to his
vision of the gods, Empedocles is still
dependent on Homer and Hesiod. He has
only partially adopted Xenophanes’ critical
attitude toward those two poets.
Empedocles’ references to the gods –
their actiοns and interactions, their moods
and desires, their goals and affinities – are
not mere metaphors. Nor are his gods
immaterial presences, abstractions, or
noetic principles. They are real and
corporeal, as is everything in Empedocles.
His gods bear a greater resemblance to
the older Hesiodic gods that are the vast
divisions of the universe – sky, earth,
Titanic underworld – than to the remote,
unmoved, disembodied Mind that
dominates Xenophanes’ thought.
Furthermore, Empedocles knows the
alternatives to his own view. He shows his
familiarity with Aeschylus’ modifications of
Xeno- phanes, and yet deliberately
chooses his own way, the way that makes
the most sense to him. The gods of
Empedocles are not inaccessible,
mysterious strangers; they dwell with us
and within us, they are as close to us as
our own limbs, our sight, our breath. They
feel our pleasure and our pain. Their
nearness makes it incumbent upon us to
understand them, listening well to the
words of the Sage of Agrigentum.
O’Rourke, D. Empedoclean Love and
Strife in Lucretius and the Elegists
Dictynna. 2014, 11.
http://dictynna.revues.org/
Résumé: This article argues that
Lucretius’ ‘tableau’ of Mars and Venus at
the opening of the De rerum natura (DRN
1.29-43) imparts to elegy’s fixation with
love and war a quasi-Empedoclean
outlook on the creative and destructive
forces that regulate the world and human
life. In the context of an age that claimed
to have begotten peace through war (cf.,
e.g., Augustus, Res Gestae 13), the
elegiac opposition of love and war is a
political theme with urgent philosophical
ramifications. The implications of
Lucretius-reception in Virgil (Aeneid 8)
suggest parallel avenues for exploration in
three elegiac case-studies: Tibullus 1.1
and 1.10; Propertius 3.4 and 3.5; Ovid, Ars
Amatoria 3.771-788. These examples
suggest that elegy’s manifold
juxtapositions of Mars and Venus, peace
and war, and even militia amoris may be
more frequently informed by EmpedocleoLucretian implications than we are
accustomed to think.
PICOT, J.C. Cleombrotus Cites
Empedocles in Plutarch's "De Defectu:" a
Question of Method in Interpreting Fr. 24
DK
Elenchos. 2014, p 1-17
Pigalev, A. The universal harmony theory
from pythagoreanism to early European
science and beyond.
Existentia. 2014, 24, p 99-122.
Parada-Daza, J. R. Pythagoras and the
Creation of Knowledge.
Open Journal of Philosophy.
2014, 4, 1, p 68-74.
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Pontani, F. « El universo es, como tú
Proteo » : selected readings of a Homeric
myth
Antike und Abendland.
2011, 57, p 129-150
Summary: Übersicht über die
Interpretationen der Proteusfigur von
Homer über allegorische Deutungen und
philosophische Kosmogonien zwischen
Platonismus und Stoizismus bis zu
Neuplatonikern und Pythagoreern ; mit
einer Zusammenstellung der Texte im
Anhang.
[Greek characters removed] and the
octave [Greek characters removed]. We
are also told that the octave is a [Greek
characters removed], which is a musical
structure resulting from an acceptable
combination of two or more smaller
intervals, in this case, of a fourth and a
fifth. However, the received text appears
problematic. In particular, the double
accusative [Greek characters removed]
occurring in connection with the dative
[Greek characters removed] seems quite
difficult to account for. Raffa suggests
another way of emending the text, which
seems simpler and more defensible. It
relies on the assumption that [Greek
characters removed] is sound and the
error lies elsewhere.
PORRECA, D. Apollonius of Tyana
through a Medieval Latin Lens.
Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft.
2014, 9, 2, p 157-177
Summary: The article examines the
Medieval reception of the mythical figure
Apollonius of Tyana in the Latin West.
Topics discussed include an ancient
literary account which presents Apollonius
of Tyana as a person gifted in magical arts
and ancient philosophy, an assessment of
the medieval texts believed to contain
some passages attributed to Apollonius,
and his comparison with another ancient
figure named Hermes Trismegistus.
Reischert, A. Ein neuer Pythagoras: Zum
450. Todestag von Adrian Willaert
Concerto: Das Magazin für Alte Musik.
2013, 30, 247, p 16.
Rocconi, E. « Psychike » e « ourania
harmonia » : alcune ipotesi sulle fonti di
Ps. Plut. De mus. 1138c-1140b
Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica.
2011, 99, p 99-115
Résumé : Analisi dei capitoli 22-25 del
« De musica », di sapore pitagorico,
dedicati all'armonia musicale connessa a
quella dell'universo, con considerazioni
sulle loro possibili fonti e sulla loro
organicità con il resto dell'opera.
Privitera, M. Pittori e musici nell’Italia del
Cinque e Seicento
Philomusica on-line: Rivista del
Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni
culturali. 2014, 13.1, p 89-112.
Abstract: Two paintings by Giovanni
Andrea Sirani offer an allegorical depiction
of the close connections among poetry,
painting, and music in early modern Italian
thought. The nature of the link between
painting and music is examined on three
levels: that of theory (Pythagorean
proportions and ideas about the painter's
profession), composition (a term used
equally by painters and musicians), and
daily life (painters who made music and
musicians who drew and painted).
Romieux-Brun, E. Philostrate. L'évocation des Perses dans la
Vie d'Apollonios de Tyane de Philostrate :
Une représentation de l'identité grecque
sous l'empire, no 1
Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé.
2014, p 112-121
Santoro, F. Allégories et rondeaux
philosophiques dans le Poème de la
nature d’Empédocle
Chôra. 2013, 11, p 183-200
Résumé: Dans une perspective de lecture
attentive aux stratégies rhétoriques et
poétiques de la sagesse antique, nous
traitons de rondeaux, de refrains, de
rythmes, de fugues et d’allégories. Sans
tenir à faire une lecture littéraire ou
musicale des fragments du Poème sur la
Raffa, M. On the text of Theophrastus Fr.
717 Fortenbaugh.
Classical Quarterly.
2014, 64, 1, p 409-410.
Abstract: The overall sense is clear
enough: the Pythagoreans call the fourth
[Greek characters removed], the fifth
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Nature d’Empédocle, nous examinons la
théorie philosophique et le langage
philosophique du philosophe d’Akragas tel
qu’il est construit intrinsèquement par son
langage poétique. Le cycle incessant qui
alterne l’amour et la haine se déploie dans
des ritournelles qui se répètent
régulièrement. Les images du monde se
transforment allégoriquement dans un
processus continu toujours repéré par un
schème de quatre figures, dont les êtres,
les matériaux, les racines ou les dieux ne
sont pas des principes ni des substrats,
mais différentes expressions d’un monde
en changement perpétuel. Nous
confrontons ainsi la vulgate d’Aristote qui
parle d’éléments chez Empédocle comme
des principes matériels et proposons de
lire son poème comme ayant une visée du
multiple, qui exprime un monde
dionysiaque dont la nature n’a aucune
face en dessous des masques qu’elle
change.
Academia » en su libro homónimo (1945).
Se consideran igualmente los criterios de
autenticidad en la recepción filológica de
Epicarmo en las ediciones críticas de sus
fragmentos.
Santoro, F. Platão e o plágio de Epicarmo
Archai. 2012, 8, p 11-20
Résumé : El estudio de la filosofía de los
pitagóricos, así como el de la filosofía de
los presocráticos en general, es
inseparable del estudio de su transmisión
y recepción por los filósofos que los
siguieron. Desde esta perspectiva, se
analiza un testimonio particularmente
controvertido del comediógrafo Epicarmo,
uno de los más antiguos pensadores
vinculados a los círculos pitagóricos. El
testimonio lo transmite Diógenes
Laercio 3, 9-11, en su vida de Platón, e
interesa en la medida en que trae a
colación explícitamente una situación de
imitación de Epicarmo por parte de Platón,
referida como prueba en un caso de
plagio. Concretamente, el caso de plagio
se sitúa dentro del contexto de una
controversia respecto a la fundación de un
género que tiene gran importancia para el
desarrollo del discurso filosófico : el
diálogo socrático. Este pasaje resulta
importante en la historia de la filosofía en
la medida en que ayuda a reconstruir la
directrices de Platón y del pensamiento de
la Academia. La acusación de plagio
evoca de alguna forma las discusiones
sobre lo que Harold Cherniss (APh 18,
p. 245) llamó « El enigma de la Primera
Shaw, M.M. Aither and the Four Roots in
Empedocles.
Research in Phenomenology.
2014, 44, 2, p 170-193
Summary: This paper surveys the
meaning of aither (...) in Empedocles.
Since Aristotle, Empedoclean aither has
been generally considered synonymous
with air (...) and understood
anachronistically in terms of its Aristotelian
conception as hot and wet. In critiquing
this interpretation, the paper first examines
the meaning of "air" in Empedocles,
revealing scant and insignificant use of the
term. Next, the ancient controversy of
Empedocles' "four roots" is recast from the
perspective that aither, rather than air,
designates the fourth root. Finally, the
nineteen instances of aither in
Empedocles' fragments are considered,
revealing a bright and energetic root
closely related to the force of life.
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Schneeweiss, B. Ovids
« Metamorphosen » und Platons
« Timaios »
Wiener humanistische Blätter.
2011, 53, p 16-32
Summery: Sowohl in der Kosmogonie
Met. 1, 5-88 als auch in der
Pythagorasrede Met. 15, 75-478 finden
sich zahlreiche Übereinstimmungen mit
Gedanken des « Timaios ». Eine genaue
Analyse zeigt, dass der « Timaios » das
einzige Werk der Antike ist, in dem sich
alle Inhalte der beiden ovidischen
Passagen gemeinsam in engem Kontext
finden lassen. Dies macht wahrscheinlich,
dass Ovid in den beiden Passagen
unmittelbar von Platon abhängt
Squire, M. “Counterfeit in Character but
Persuasive in Appearance”: Reviewing the
Ainigma of the Tabula Cebetis
Classical Philology.
2014, 109, 4, p. 285-324
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Voir dans le PDF(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)Talamo, C. I Mille, famiglie preminenti e
pitagorismo a Crotone
La Parola del passato.
2011, 66, 378, p 171-179
Résumé : Riflessioni sul complotto
antipitagorico di Crotone descritto da
Iambl., Pyth. 254-264, sulle parti in causa
e sulle premesse della rivolta
this derivation appears to be relevant not
only semantically, but also linguistically.
Thus the term “Essenes” can be
interpreted as the “fatalists” (see e.g.
Tantlevskij 2013). The doctrine of
predestination also plays the key role in
religious outlook of the Qumran
community, and it is considered to be one
of the most fundamental argu- ments in
favor of the Qumranites identification with
the Essenes. Some Platonic- Pythagorean
(not only Stoic) doctrines can be regarded
as certain Hellenistic parallels to the
Essenic-Qumranic conception of
predestination.
Tallis, R. Mathematics and reality.
Philosophy Now. 2014, 102, p 50-51.
Abstract: Pythagoras concluded that
reality is mathematical and, indeed,
through its employment, physics has
consistently explained and predicted the
material world. In fact some scientists,
most notably cosmologist Max Tegmark,
have gone as far as to suggest that reality
- and even consciousness itself - are
nothing more than mathematical substructures; in effect reality is mathematics.
Some, however, take the view that, as
mathematics deals solely with quantitative
properties, the significance of reality's
qualitative properties are being ignored,
and thus mathematics cannot provide a
complete explanation for it. Discusses
these notions, and others, including the
relationship between mathematics and
reality are questioned and the growing
disconnect between the abstracted world
as described by mathematics and the
world as it is actually experienced.
Trepanier, S. From Wandering Limbs to
Limbless Gods: [non-Roman script word]
as Substance in Empedocles.
Apeiron. 2014, 47, 2, p 172-210.
Abstract: This study offers a unified
interpretation of Empedocles’ thought,
based on his concept of the δαίµων.
Following Simplicius’ testimony to B 59,
the case is made for understanding each
δαίµων not only as a compound, but as an
instance of a natural kind, a preAristotelian material substance. Its two
main attested instances are limbs or body
parts (B 59) and long-lived but ‘limbless’
gods (B 29 and especially B 134). The
case for limbs as substances is confirmed
by a review of Aristotle’s various criticisms
of Empedocles and new evidence for
Empedocles’ embryology in section c of
the Strasburg papyrus. The link between
limbs and limbless gods, it is then
suggested, is mediated by an
Empedoclean scale of nature based on a
hierarchy of elemental blends. This in turn
makes it possible to identify the
reincarnated δαίµων of B 115 as an
intermediate between the other two: a
body part whose blend is superior to the
limbs, so that it endures from one body to
the next, but which remains too
contaminated by Strife to escape from
further reincarnation
Tamás, Á. Reading Ovid Reading Horace.
The Empedoclean Drive in the Ars poetica
Materiali e Discussioni per l'Analisi dei
Testi Classici. 2014, 72, p 173-192
Tantlevskij, I. R. The essenes as the
pythagoreans: Predestination in
pythagoreanism, platonism and the
Qumran theology.
Schole. 2014, 8, 1, p 50-53 (in English),
54-66. (in Russian)
ABSTRACT: The widely spread Essenes
practice of the future events prediction is
likely to be based on their belief in the
absolute predestination. In this light the
hitherto unclarified ety- mology of the very
term Ἐσσαῖοι / Ἐσσηνοί can be traced to
the Aramaic notion ( חשיאpl. st.
emph.)/resp. ( חשאיןst. abs.; sing. )חשא,
which is likely to be interpreted as “what
man has to suffer, predestination, fortune”;
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Trutty-Coohill, P. Pythagoras in the
Sacred Cosmos of Chartres Cathedral.
Analecta Husserliana. 2014, 117, p 37-56.
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imago » : Ovid's poetics of irony and
reflections of Lucretius and Pythagoras in
the « Metamorphoses »
Acta classica. 2011, 54, p 125-147
Résumé : Clues in Ovid's work anticipate a
certain kind of reading, even imply
warnings against credulousness and
metaphysical earnestness, and are
perhaps well applied to our reading of him.
Such clues in the parables of failure to
recognize and misreadings of signs and
the handling of philosophical material in
the « Metamorphoses » are notable in the
Theban episodes in Books 3 and 4 and
Pythagoras's speech in Book 15. Ovid's
irony is the effect of his conception of the
ambiguous status of appearances. He
plays with the relationship between
« logos » and « imago » and that of
discourse and imagination to philosophical
truth, where knowing is set against
innocence, rather than truth against
untruth. Ovid's empty discourses parody
philosophy in using its topics while seeking
no transformation in the audience - a
transformation that was the aim of properly
philosophical discourse.
Orpheus is associated with homoeroticism
and misogyny from the Classical period.
Phanocles' poem also exploits Orpheus'
ambivalent status: as founder of the
Eleusinian mysteries, his authority was
immense. But he was also seen as the
guru of a countercultural fringe, who
preached reincarnation and vegetarianism.
The fact that Phanocles presents Orpheus'
erotic predilections as mysteries points to
Plato, who rejected the mainstream,
Eleusinian Orpheus, and embraced the
counter-cultural (Pythagorean) one.
Orpheus rejects generative love because
he is associated with the transcendent,
rather than earthly, realm. Plato reconfigures both Orpheus' mystical
teachings and his music-making as
philosophy/philosophical love, benefiting
from traditions of interpreting Orphic
poetry allegorically.
Zanini, A. Horizonterweiterung durch
Perspektivenwechsel : das « Somnium
Scipionis »
Der altsprachliche Unterricht.
2012, 55, p 40-44.
Résumé : Die im « Somnium Scipionis »
vermittelte Raumkonzeption ist zugleich
Quelle und Spiegel der dort geäusserten
philosophischen Grundannahmen. Scipio
erlangt seine Erkenntnisse, nachdem er
den ihm bis dahin gegebenen Lebensraum
der Erde verlassen hat, was ihm durch
einen Traum möglich ist, durch den er eine
enorme Distanz zu seinem bisherigen
Leben und damit verbunden einen
Perspektivenwechsel gewinnt, der ihm zur
Erkenntnis verhilft.
Veneciano, G. El fr. 139 DK de
Empédocles y el « ensemble » D del
Papiro de Estrasburgo : a propósito de
una nueva edición
Argos. 2012, 35, p 92-103
Résumé : A propósito de la traducción de
R. Cornavaca consignada en 83-03545.
Warnek, Fire from Heaven in Elemental
Tragedy: From Holderlin's Death of
Empedocles to Nietzsche's Dying
Socrates.
Research in Phenomenology.
2014, 44, 2, p 212-239
WATSON, S. B. ORPHEUS' EROTIC
MYSTERIES: PLATO, PEDERASTY, AND
THE ZAGREUS MYTH IN PHANOCLES
F 1.
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical
Studies, 57, 2, 47-71.
In his Ἔρωτɛς ἢ Kαλoί, Phanocles tells
how Orpheus was decapitated by Thracian
women because he ‘revealed’ homoerotic
love and rejected women. Iconographic
and literary evidence suggests that
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