Pythagoras
Letters of Pythagoras
Traditional attribution
Letters of Pythagoras
In the letter to Anaximenes, Pythagoras explains that he cannot leave Croton because the Italian cities need him, just as Anaximenes should not abandon Miletus. Anaximenes' reply is also invented. They are rhetorical exercises showing the image of the sage as lawgiver.
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Authorship note
Spurious. Apocryphal letters such as the one addressed to Anaximenes, which Diogenes Laertius copies (VIII 49–50), or the letter to Hiero of Syracuse, composed in the Hellenistic or imperial period.
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English
Pythagoras
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
The Conscious LibraryThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Project Gutenberg (trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853), 1853
Translation: Charles Duke Yonge
La carta a Anaxímenes, al final de la vida de Pitágoras.
Other works by Pythagoras
- Golden Verses · 300
- Akousmata and symbola · 500
- On the Pythagorean Life (Iamblichus) · 300
- Life of Pythagoras (Porphyry) · 280
- Life of Pythagoras (Diogenes Laertius, Lives VIII 1–50) · 230
- Testimonies of his contemporaries (Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Ion of Chios, Herodotus) · 450
- Aristotle's testimonies on the Pythagoreans · 340
- Sacred Discourse (Hieros logos) · 300
- Books on Education, Politics and Nature · 300
- Pseudo-Pythagorean writings · 200
- Fragments of Philolaus of Croton · 420
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro VIII, 1–50 (Pitágoras), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, Londres, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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