Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras
Description
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.
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- Page Count (PDF)
- 141
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