Writings related to Pythagoreanism. See also: Neopythagoreanism.
Full title: IAMBLICHUS’ LIFE OF PYTHAGORAS OR PYTHAGORIC LIFE. ACCOMPANIED BY FRAGMENTS OF THE ETHICAL WRITINGS OF CERTAIN PYTHAGOREANS IN… Read More »Iamblichus’s Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life
I. Life “Pythagoras, the pure philosopher deeply versed in the profounder phenomena of nature, the noble inheritor of the ancient… Read More »Life and Teachings of Pythagoras
[Crotona] This was the ancient city of Magna Graecia, Italy, and has no reference to modern places of that name.… Read More »The School of Pythagoras at Crotona
FROM HIPPODAMUS, THE THURIAN, IN HIS TREATISE ON FELICITY. ———— Of animals, some are the recipients of felicity, but others… Read More »Fragments of the Ethical Writings of Certain Pythagoreans
All these Symbols are exhortatory in common to the whole of virtue; but particularly each to some particular virtue. Different… Read More »The Pythagoric Symbols, with the Explanations of Iamblichus
Since men live but for a very short period, if their life is compared with the whole of time, they… Read More »“On Tranquility,” by Hipparchus
From Theages, in his Treatise “On the Virtues”: The order of the soul subsists in such a way, that one… Read More »“On the Virtues,” by Theages, Metapus & Clinias
[Note:] Several of these sentences as published by Arcerius, are in a very defective state; but which, as the learned… Read More »Pythagoric Sentences, from the Protreptics of Iamblichus
The tetrad was called by the Pythagoreans every number, because it comprehends in itself all the numbers as far as… Read More »“On the Tetractys,” by Theon of Smyrna
1. First worship the immortal gods as the Law ordains. 2. Reverence thy oath, and next, the illustrious heroes. 3.… Read More »The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
Of animals, some are the recipients of felicity, but others are incapable of receiving it. And those animals, indeed, are… Read More »“On Felicity,” by Hippodamus
1. Request not of the divinity such things as when obtained you cannot preserve; for no gift of divinity can ever… Read More »The Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus
In the first place, it is requisite to know this, that the good man is not immediately happy from necessity;… Read More »“The Good and Happy Man,” by Archytas
Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done. Choose rather to be strong in soul than… Read More »Pythagoric Ethical Sentences from Stobæus
The perfect life of man falls short indeed of the life of God, because it is not self-perfect, but surpasses… Read More »“Concerning Human Life,” by Euryphamus
It was an auspicious day for the student at Crotona when Pythagoras received him into his own dwelling and welcomed… Read More »The Pythagorean Science of Numbers
1. If any one will give his mind to these sentences, he will obtain many things worthy of a man, and… Read More »The Golden Sentences of Democrates
1. Flattery is like painted armour, because it affords delight, but is of no use. 2. Learning is similar to a golden… Read More »The Similitudes of Demophilus
Twenty-five centuries ago the island of Samos was one of the garden spots of Ionia. Colonized hundreds of years before… Read More »Pythagoras
Chapter I. Importance of the Subject Since wise people are in the habit of invoking the divinities at the beginning… Read More »Iamblichus’s Life of Pythagoras
I. Early Life Since we have now gone through the Ionian philosophy, which was derived from Thales, and the lives… Read More »Diogenes Laërtius’s Life of Pythagoras
1. Many think that Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus, but they differ as to the latter’s race; some thinking him… Read More »Porphyry’s Life of Pythagoras
1. Plato was the pupil of Archytas, and thus the ninth in succession from Pythagoras; the tenth was Aristotle. Those… Read More »Anonymous Biography of Pythagoras, preserved by Photius
The great Theosophist of the first century B.C. was Jesus the Christ. The great Theosophist of the first century A.D.… Read More »Apollonius of Tyana
Pythagoras was born about 528 B.C., and his parents, Mnesarchus and Pythais were citizens of Samos and descendants of Ancaeus,… Read More »On Pythagoras
The stream of an ancient wisdom flows out of a remote antiquity. At times traces of its existence are observable… Read More »Pythagoras’ Contribution