Pythagoras revived mathematics and philosophy in late antiquity

This title examines the Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality, describing first the Pythagorean interests of Platonists in the second and third centuries and then Iamblichus's programme to Pythagoreanize Platonism in the fourth century in his work 'On Pythagorean...

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Main Author: O'Meara, Dominic J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1989, 1989
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This title examines the Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality, describing first the Pythagorean interests of Platonists in the second and third centuries and then Iamblichus's programme to Pythagoreanize Platonism in the fourth century in his work 'On Pythagoreanism'
Physical Description:xii, 251 p.
ISBN:9780191600937
0191600938