Pythagorean knowledge from the ancient to the modern world: askesis, religion, science
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Andrew James Johnston and Gyburg Uhlmann: Preface -- Almut-Barbara Renger & Alessandro Stavru: Introduction -- I Orphika -- Alberto Bernabé: Transfer of Afterlife Knowledge in Pythagorean Eschatology -- Francesc Casadesús Bordoy: T...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiesbaden, [Germany]
Harrassowitz Verlag
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series/Journal: | Episteme in Bewegung
v.4 |
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Pythagoreans
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Culture--Study and teaching
B Culture studies B Electronic books B Culture Study and teaching B Conference program 2013 (Berlin) |
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Print version: Renger, Almut-Barbara: Pythagorean Knowledge from the Ancient to the Modern World: askesis, religion, science. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, O,c2016. - 9783447105941 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Andrew James Johnston and Gyburg Uhlmann: Preface -- Almut-Barbara Renger & Alessandro Stavru: Introduction -- I Orphika -- Alberto Bernabé: Transfer of Afterlife Knowledge in Pythagorean Eschatology -- Francesc Casadesús Bordoy: The Appropriation of the Figure of Orpheus and Orphic Doctrines: An Example of Pythagoras' Artful Knavery (kakotechnie)? -- Luc Brisson: The Making of Pythagoreanism: Orpheus, Aglaophamus, Pythagoras, Plato -- II Metempsychosis -- Richard McKirahan: Philolaus on the Soul -- Sylvana Chrysakopoulou: Is Parmenides a Pythagorean? Plato on Theoria as a Vision of the Soul -- Gabriele Cornelli: Aristotle and the Pythagorean Myths of Metempsychosis -- Bernd Roling: Pythagoras and Christian Eschatology: The Debate on the Transmigration of Souls in Early Scholasticism -- III Tropos tou biou -- Maurizio Giangiulio: Aristoxenus and Timaeus on the Pythagorean Way of Life -- Claudia Montepaone & Marcello Catarzi: Pythagorean Askesis in Timycha of Sparta and Theano of Croton -- Ilaria Ramelli: The Sentences of Sextus and the Christian Transformation of Pythagorean Asceticism -- Irini Fotini Viltanioti: Porphyry's Letter to Marcella. A Literary Attack on Christian Appropriation of (Neo)Pythagorean Moral Wisdom? -- Luca Arcari: Reinventing the Pythagorean Tradition in Pseudo-Justin's Cohortatio ad Graecos -- Dirk Baltzly: Transformations of Pythagorean Wisdom and Psychic ἄσκησις in Proclus' Timaeus Commentary -- Ada Palmer: The Active and Monastic Life in Humanist Biographies of Pythagoras -- Jan N. Bremmer: Richard Reitzenstein, Pythagoras and the Life of Antony -- IV Dietetics & Medicine -- Stavros Kouloumentas: The Pythagoreans on Medicine: Religion or Science? -- Andrew Barker: Pythagoreans and Medical Writers on Periods of Human Gestation. Hynek Bartoš: Iamblichus on Pythagorean Dietetics -- V Music -- Antonietta Provenza: The Pythagoreans and the Therapeutic Effects of the Paean between Religion, Paideia, and Politics -- Emidio Spinelli: "Are Flute-Players Better than Philosophers?" Sextus Empiricus on Music, Against Pythagoras -- VI Number & Harmony -- Leonid Zhmud: Greek Arithmology: Pythagoras or Plato? -- Eugene Afonasin: Pythagorean Numerology and Diophantus' Arithmetica: A Note on Hippolytus' Elenchos I 2 -- Anna Izdebska: The Pythagorean Metaphysics of Numbers in the Works of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ and al-Shahrastāni -- Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier: Pythagoras and the "Perfect" Churches of the Renaissance -- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann: Kabbalah as a Transfer of Pythagorean Number Theory: The Case of Johannes Reuchlin's De Arte Cabalistica -- Samuel Galson: Unfolding Pythagoras: Leibniz, Myth, and Mathesis -- VII Refractions -- Tengiz Iremadze: The Pythagorean Doctrine in the Caucasus -- Beate Ulrike La Sala: Ibn Sīnā's and Al-Ghazālī's Approach to Pythagoreanism -- Denis Robichaud: Marsilio Ficino and Plato's Divided Line: Iamblichus and Pythagorean Pseudepigrapha in the Renaissance -- Hanns-Peter Neumann: Pythagoras Refracted: The Formation of Pythagoreanism in the Early Modern Period -- Appendix: Three Texts on Pythagorean Way of Life -- Emily Cottrell: Pythagoras, the Wandering Ascetic: A Reconstruction of the Life of Pythagoras According to al-Mubashshir ibn Fātik and Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻa* -- Ada Palmer: Two Humanist Lives of Pythagoras -- Indexes -- Index of Topics -- Index of Passages -- Index of Ancient Names -- Index of Medieval and Modern Names -- Notes on Authors |
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| ISBN: | 3447195126 |