Pythagoras
Books on Education, Politics and Nature
Traditional attribution
Books on Education, Politics and Nature
Nothing survives beyond minimal quotations. The ancient debate on whether Pythagoras wrote shows that by the Hellenistic period it was known there were no genuine works of his; Heraclitus (DK 22 B 129) speaks of the writings Pythagoras supposedly used, not of those he wrote.
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Authorship note
Spurious. Diogenes Laertius (VIII 6) reports the opinion of those who said Pythagoras wrote three books—Paideutikon, Politikon and Physikon—against those who denied he wrote anything. The texts that circulated under these titles are Hellenistic forgeries.
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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
- 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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