Academic study
Life of Pythagoras (Diogenes Laertius, Lives VIII 1–50)
Βίοι καὶ γνῶμαι, VIII 1–50
It contains the genealogy, the journeys, the list of incarnations Pythagoras remembered (Aethalides, Euphorbus, Hermotimus, Pyrrhus), Xenophanes' lines about the dog, the summary of doctrines from Alexander Polyhistor's "Pythagorean Notes", the food prohibitions, the versions of the death, Hermippus' story of his descent to Hades and the apocryphal letter from Pythagoras to Anaximenes.
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Authorship note
A chapter of the work of Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE), a compiler who piles up versions without choosing among them. Useful precisely for that reason: it preserves the contradictory reports on Pythagoras' origin, writings and death, and quotations from lost authors (Hermippus, Timaeus, Aristoxenus, Alexander Polyhistor).
Editions and translations
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English
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Oxford University Press, 2018
Translation: Pamela Mensch
ISBN 9780190862176
Edición de James Miller.
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
Dominio público.
Español
Vidas de Pitágoras
Atalanta, 2011
Translation: David Hernández de la Fuente
ISBN 9788493846664
Reúne las vidas de Diógenes Laercio, Porfirio y Jámblico y otros testimonios.
Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres
Alianza Editorial, 2013
Translation: Carlos García Gual
ISBN 9788420676975
Other works by Pythagoras
- Golden Verses · 300
- Akousmata and symbola · 500
- On the Pythagorean Life (Iamblichus) · 300
- Life of Pythagoras (Porphyry) · 280
- 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
- Letters of Pythagoras · 100
- 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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