Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras

This is Thomas Taylor's translation of Iamblichus’ Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life, originally published in 1818.

It is subtitled: “Accompanied by Fragments of the Ethical Writings of Certain Pythagoreans in the Doric Dialect; and a Collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and Others, which are Omitted by Gale in his Opuscula Mythologica, and have not been noticed by any editor.”

Iamblichus was a Syrian Neoplatonist philosopher who lived around the third century AD, and here he gives a biographical account of the Greek mathematician and philosopher, Pythagoras.