From the Pseudopythagorica to the Neopythagoreans

Prof. Dr. Constantinos Macris; Prof. Dr. Tiziano Dorandi; Prof. Dr. Luc Brisson

doi:10.5771/9783495991947

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The original essays in this volume continue the collective exploration of the texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans in the Hellenistic and Imperial times, initiated in the same series in 2021. The topics covered in these largely understudied texts written by unknown authors range from monistic onto-theology and the nature of the universe to law, political philosophy, ethics, the proper way to live and the unification of man. The focus here is on the role of the most influential of these authoritative texts in the preparation of both the Neopythagorean revival of the first century BC, especially in Rome, and the new developments encountered in the Platonic tradition, from Alexandrian Middle Platonism down to post-Plotinian Neoplatonism.With contributions byJelle Abbenes | Omar D. Álvarez Salas | Luc Brisson | Albio Cesare Cassio | Michele Curnis | Dorota Dutsch | Michel Humm | Izabela Jurasz | Grégoire Lacaze | Jaap Mansfeld | Katarzyna Prochenko | Cyril Rouanet | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti | Georges Skaltsas | Giovanni Trovato | Matteo Varoli | Pierre Vesperini | Irini-Fotini Viltanioti | Brandon Zimmerman

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-495-99193-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-495-99194-7
Publisher: Karl Alber, Baden-Baden
Series: Academia Philosophical Studies
Volume: 83
Language: English
Pages: 856
Product type: Edited Book

1. Notes on the contributors No access
2. Abbreviations No access
3. By way of an Introduction No access
1. Omar D. Álvarez Salas
  1. 1 Épicharme poète comique et sage No access
  2. 2 Épicharme, les pseudepicharmea et l’iatrologie pythagoricienne No access
  3. 3 Épicharme maître du dorien et la revendication (pseudo-)pythagoricienne de ce dialecte No access
  4. 4 Ὑπομνήματα d’« Épicharme » et Mémoires (pseudo-)pythagoriciens : vers une botanique thérapeutique No access
  5. 5 La doctrine du nombre dans la Πολιτεία d’ « Épicharme », l’Épinomis et les (pseudo-)pythagorica No access
  6. 6 Conclusions No access
  7. Bibliographie No access
2. Jelle G.-J. Abbenes
  1. 1. 1a Relationship with Theocritus and Alcman No access
    2. 1b Pythagorean Doric and Standard Pseudo-Pythagorean Doric No access
    3. 1c A Literary Language No access
    4. 1d Remaining Puzzles No access
  2. 1. 2a Heraclean (according to C.J. Ruijgh) No access
    2. 2b Syracusan long-vowel Doric future (according to C.J. Ruijgh) No access
    3. 2c A.C. Cassio No access
    4. 1. Archimedes No access
      2. Theocritus, Dissoi Logoi, Pythagorean Doric No access
      3. What of εὐωχε͜ουμένων? No access
      4. Alcman No access
    5. 2e Conclusion No access
  3. Bibliography No access
3. Albio Cesare Cassio
  1. 1 Un fragment d’‘Androcydès’ dans l’Introduction à l'arithmétique de Nicomaque de Gérase No access
  2. 1. 2a Que veut dire Περὶ γυναικὸς ἁρμονίας ? No access
    2. 2b Langue poétique et “prose métrique” No access
    3. 2c À la recherche d’un θηητήρ de la débauche féminine No access
    4. 2d πέφαται No access
    5. 2e λελάχαται No access
    6. 2f ἄσασθαι τὸν νόμον No access
  3. 3 Remarques conclusives No access
  4. Bibliography No access
4. Luc Brisson
  1. 1. 1.1. L’originalité revendiquée par Platon No access
    2. 1.2. La structure du discours aux colons No access
  2. 2. Préambules aux lois de Charondas de Catane No access
  3. 3. Préambules aux lois de Zaleucos No access
  4. 4. Remarques pour conclure No access
  5. Bibliographie No access
5. Giovanni Trovato
  1. 1 Ocellus’ Platonic Roots No access
  2. 2 A Pythagorean Indestructible and Unbegotten Universe No access
  3. 3 Ocellus and Aristotle’s De generatione et corruptione No access
  4. 4 Final remarks No access
  5. Bibliography No access
6. Irini-Fotini Viltanioti
  1. 1 La théorie de la justice-harmonie chez Platon No access
  2. 2 La justice dans les Pythagorica dorica No access
  3. 1. 3a Diotogène, Sur la royauté No access
    2. 3b Eccélos, Sur la justice No access
    3. 3c Théagès, Sur la vertu No access
  4. 4 Conclusions ouvertes No access
  5. 1. 1. A. Diot. De regn., p. 71, 18 – 72, 23 Thesleff = Stob. 4.7.61, p. 263 Hense No access
      2. B. Diot., De regn., p. 73, 9–19 Thesleff = Stob. 4.7.62, p. 265 Hense No access
      3. C. Diot., De regn., p. 75, 8–16 Thesleff = Stob. 4.7.62 p. 265 Hense No access
    2. 1. Eccelos, De iust. p. 77, 16 – 78,16 Thesleff = Stob. 3.9.51 p. 362 Hense No access
      2. T1. Tableau synoptique des formes que revêt la justice dans les différents systèmes selon Eccélos No access
    3. 1. Theag., De virt. p. 190, 1 – 192, 4 Thesleff = Stob. 3.1.117, p. 76 Hense; cf. B. Centrone (1990: 95–98, 127–129, 217–226) No access
      2. T2. Tableau synoptique des formes que revêt la justice selon Τhéagès No access
  6. Bibliographie No access
7. Matteo Varoli
  1. 1. Cos’è uno gnomone? Lo gnomone nel pitagorismo classico No access
  2. 2. Gnomoni e proporzione: Butero di Cizico No access
  3. 3. Callicratida e l’“applicazione delle aree” No access
  4. 4. “Secondo la natura dello gnomone”: lo scritto pseudo-filolaico Sulla decade No access
  5. 5. Conclusioni No access
  6. Bibliografia No access
8. Jaap Mansfeld
  1. 1 Contrasting Views No access
  2. 2 Name-Label ‘Pythagoreans’ in Aristotle, Other Name-Labels in the Placita No access
  3. 3 A Different Name-Label in Aristotle No access
  4. 4 Name-Label ‘Pythagoreans’ in both Aristotle and the Placita No access
  5. 5 Conclusions No access
  6. Bibliography No access
9. Michele Curnis
  1. 1 Introduzione: materiali pitagorici nel capitolo Sulla virtù No access
  2. 2 Selezioni pitagoriche nella tradizione stobeana No access
  3. 3 I caratteri distintivi e problematici di Stob. III 1, 199 No access
  4. 4 “Quid Stobaei testimonio faciendum est?” No access
  5. 5 Intermezzo : Orfeo, Lino, Giamblico e lo Stobeo No access
  6. 6 Conclusioni ipotetiche (ma ottimistiche) No access
  7. Bibliografia No access
10. Katarzyna Prochenko
  1. 1 Osservazioni introduttive No access
  2. 2 Le recensioni della redazione alfabetica: le Sentenze di Pitagora, le Sentenze pitagoriche [di pseudo-Demofilo] e le Sentenze alfabetiche di Sesto No access
  3. 3 Redazioni non alfabetiche: la Lettera a Marcella di Porfirio, le Chreiai di Clitarco, le Sentenze di Sesto e l’Enchiridion di Sisto No access
  4. 4 Sextus Pythagoricus No access
  5. 5 Le fonti pitagoriche di Girolamo No access
  6. 6 Un breviarium degli insegnamenti raccolti da Liside ed Archippo? No access
  7. 7 Pitagorismo ascetico nelle fonti dell’età classica e ellenistica No access
  8. 8 Le fonti pitagoriche di Socrate nel Fedone No access
  9. 9 Conclusioni No access
  10. Bibliografia No access
11. Izabela Jurasz
  1. 1 La Théano grecque No access
  2. 2 La Théano syriaque No access
  3. 1. 3a La collection originelle (BL Add 14658 et Sinaï Syriaque 16) No access
    2. 3b Les collections partielles No access
  4. 4 Les principes de l’édition et de la traduction du corpus syriaque de Théano No access
  5. 1. I. Les Conseils de Théano No access
    2. II. Les enseignements de Théano No access
    3. III. La mort de Théano No access
  6. 6 En guise de conclusion No access
  7. Bibliographie No access
12. Brandon Zimmerman
  1. 1 Plato Points the Way to First-Principle Monism No access
  2. 2 Debates about Plato’s Principles in the Old Academy No access
  3. 3 The Reassertion of Monism in the Neopythagorean Tradition No access
  4. 4 The Problem of the Many from the One No access
  5. 5 Enter Plotinus No access
  6. 1. 1. I. Texts from Plato and the Old Academy No access
      2. II. Pythagorean Pseudepigrapha from Holger Thesleff’s Collection (1965) No access
      3. A. Monarchic Dualism No access
      4. B. Monism No access
      5. III. Monistic Neopythagorean Texts No access
      6. IV. Pythagorean Texts with Accounts of Dynamic Monism No access
  7. Appendix II: Monism in Platonic Letters II and VI No access
  8. Bibliography No access
13. Georges Skaltsas
  1. 1 D’Ambroise (et Épictète…) à Clément : assuesce unus esse, esto unus, ἕνα γενέσθαι καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον δεῖ No access
  2. 1. 2a L’unification de l’homme par les vertus universelles No access
    2. 2b L’âme et l’unification humaine No access
    3. 2c Formes du morcellement humain No access
    4. 2d Éducation et unification de l’homme No access
    5. 2e Unification de l’homme et assimilation au divin No access
    6. 2f L’unification humaine et l’Idée du Bien No access
    7. 2g L’unification de l’homme comme devenir No access
  3. 3 La recherche néopythagoricienne de l’unité No access
  4. 4 Remarques conclusives No access
  5. Bibliographie No access
1. Dorota Dutsch
  1. 1 Second Century BCE: A Manuscript Found in a Tomb, and Pythagorean Cabbage No access
  2. 2 First Century BCE: illa disciplina No access
  3. 3 First Century BCE-CE: Ovid’s Pythagoras No access
  4. 4 Conclusions No access
  5. Bibliography No access
2. Michel Humm
  1. 1 Numa, roi pythagoricien No access
  2. 2 Ennius, Fulvius Nobilior et le temple d’Hercule aux Muses (Hercules Musarum) No access
  3. 3 Le contenu subversif des livres de Numa découverts en 181 No access
  4. 4 Recherches astronomiques et divinisation astrale No access
  5. Abréviations No access
  6. Bibliographie No access
3. Pierre Vesperini
  1. 1 Le fragment du Timée cicéronien No access
  2. 2 La soi-disant “secte” de Nigidius Figulus No access
  3. 3 Nigidius Figulus Pythagoricus et magus No access
  4. 4 Conclusions No access
  5. Bibliographie No access
4. Elsa Giovanna Simonetti
  1. 1 Apollonius’ Letters and the Critique of Material Sacrifices No access
  2. 2 Vegetarianism and Pythagoreanism: Apollonius’ Rejection of Bloody Sacrifices? No access
  3. 3 Apollonius’ Theology No access
  4. 4 Conclusion No access
  5. 1. A. Texts and translations No access
    2. B. Secondary literature No access
5. Cyril Rouanet
  1. 1. 1. a. Le culte des dieux No access
      2. b. Dits et préceptes de Pythagore en marge de la magie apuléenne : incantations, divination et initiation No access
    2. 1. a. Les Pythagoriciens voient des démons No access
      2. b. La vie bonne de Pythagore No access
      3. c. La beauté de Pythagore No access
    3. 1.3 La généalogie Pythagore-Platon-Apulée No access
  2. 1. 2.1 L’Introductio arithmetica No access
    2. 2.2 Une piste peu explorée pour expliquer l’attribution de Pythagorica à Apulée à partir de la fin de l’Antiquité : la bibliothèque paradoxographique des néoplatoniciens No access
    3. 2.3 La Ratio sphaerae No access
  3. 3 Conclusion No access
  4. Bibliographie No access
6. Pierre Vesperini
  1. 1 Les Physika kai Mystika du pseudo-Démocrite et Bolos de Mendès ‘le Pythagoricien’ No access
  2. 2 Néchepsos No access
  3. 3 La paraphrase à la Tétrabible de Ptolémée No access
  4. 4 Les Commenta Bernensia No access
  5. 5 Les Actes de Thomas No access
  6. 1. Pseudo-Démocrite, Φυσικὰ καὶ μυστικά, § 3–4, p. 184–188 Martelli No access
  7. Bibliographie No access
7. Grégoire Lacaze
  1. Bibliographie No access