Later compilation
Pseudo-Pythagorean writings
Treatises on ethics, politics, household management and cosmology, and letters of Pythagorean women (Theano, Melissa, Myia) on raising children and wifely conduct. Largely preserved by Stobaeus' anthology and gathered in modern times by Holger Thesleff (1965). Thomas Taylor translated a selection into English in 1822.
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Authorship note
A corpus of treatises in Doric dialect attributed to Pythagoras, his wife Theano, his children and early Pythagoreans such as Archytas, Ocellus Lucanus or Timaeus of Locri, mostly composed between the third century BCE and the first century CE. None is by Pythagoras.
Editions and translations
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English
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library
Phanes Press, 1987
Translation: Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, Thomas Taylor y Arthur Fairbanks
ISBN 9780933999510
Ed. David R. Fideler; incluye las vidas de Porfirio y Jámblico, los Versos de oro y fragmentos pitagóricos.
Pythagoras
Political Fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and Other Ancient Pythagoreans, Preserved by Stobaeus
The Conscious LibraryPolitical Fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and Other Ancient Pythagoreans, Preserved by Stobaeus
Project Gutenberg, 1822
Translation: Thomas Taylor
Dominio público.
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
- Letters of Pythagoras · 100
- Fragments of Philolaus of Croton · 420
Sources
- Huffman, Carl. «Pythagoreanism». The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta; primera publicación 2006, revisión sustancial del 5 de marzo de 2024.
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