Pythagoras · His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical Sources by Wasserman, James -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Preface Introduction Part One: The Life of Pythagoras

1. The Country, Parents, and Time of Pythagoras 2. His First Education and Masters 3. How he Traveled to Phoenicia 4. How he Traveled to Egypt 5. How he Went to Babylon 6. How he Returned to Samos 7. Travels to Delos, Delphi, Crete, and Sparta 8. How he Went to Olympia and Phlius 9. How he Lived at Samos 10. His Voyage to Italy 11. His Arrival at Crotona 12. His Oration to the Young Men 13. His Oration to the Senators 14. His Oration to the Boys 15. His Oration to the Women 16. His Institution of a Sect in Private and Public 17. His Authority in Civil Affairs 18. Wonders Related of Him 19. His Death 20. His Person and Virtues 21. His Wife, Children, and Servants 22. His Writings 23. His Disciples 24. The Succession of His School

Part Two: Disciplines and Doctrines of the Pythagoreans

1. The Great Authority and Esteem of Pythagoras 2. The Two Sorts of Auditors 3. Purificative Institution by Sufferings 4. Silence 5. Abstinence, Temperance, and Other Ways of Purification 6. Community of Estates 7. Admission or Rejection 8. Distinction 9. How They Disposed the Day 10. How They Examined Their Actions 11. Secrecy

Part Three: The Doctrine of Pythagoras

Arithmetic

1. Number Its Kinds: Intellectual 2. The Other Kind of Number: Sciential 3. The Two Kinds of Sciential Number 4. Symbolic Numbers 5. The Monad 6. The Duad 7. The Triad 8. The Tetrad 9. The Pentad 10. The Hexad 11. The Heptad 12. The Ogdoad 13. The Ennead 14. The Decad 15. Divination by Numbers

Music

1. Voice, Its Kinds 2. First Music in the Planets 3. The Octochord 4. The Arithmetical Proportions of Harmony 5. The Division of the Diapason 6. The Cannon of the Monochord 7. Institution by Music 8. Medicine by Music

Geometry

1. Of a Point, Line, Superficies and Solid 2. Propositions 3. How he Determined the Stature of Hercules

Astronomy

1. The System of the Spheres 2. The Motions of the Planets 3. The Intervals and Harmony of the Spheres 4. Of the Planet Venus

Section II: Philosophy: Philosophy: Its Name, Definition, Parts, Method

Practical Philosophy: Its Parts; and First of Education

1. Institution, Silence, Abstinence 2. Fortitude 3. Temperance and Continence 4. Sagacity and Wisdom

Of Politics: The Other Part of Practical Philosophy

1. Common Conversation 2. Friendship 3. Worship of the Gods 4. Piety to the Dead 5. Reverence of Parents, and Obedience to the Law 6. Lawmaking

Theoretical Philosophy: Its Parts

1. Of the Supreme God 2. Of Gods, Daemons, Heroes 3. Of Fate and Fortune 4. Divination

Physic

1. Principles 2. Of the World 3. Of the Superior or Aetherial Parts of the World

Of the Sublunary Parts of the World

1. Of Living, and Animate Creatures 2. Of the Generation of Animate Creatures 3. The Soul: Its Parts, and First of the Irrational Part 4. Of the Rational Part of the Soul: The Mind 5. Of the Transmigration of the Soul 6. The Separate Life of the Soul

Medicine

1. Dietetics 2. Therapeutic

Section III. Symbols

1. Pythagoras: His Symbolic Way of Teaching 2. The Symbols of Pythagoras According to Iamblichus 3. Explication of the Pythagorean Symbols by Iamblichus 4. The Same Symbols Explained by Others 5. Other Symbols 6. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras

Part Four: Pythagorean Commentators

Of the Soul of the World by Timaeus the Locrian The Doctrine of Pythagoras by John Reuchlin

1. Of Pythagoras: His Way of Teaching, 2. The Triple Word 3. The Supreme World 4. The Intelligible World 5. The Sensible World 6. The State of the Soul after Death 7. Of the Pythagorean Transmigration

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