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On the Pythagorean Life (Iamblichus)

Περὶ τοῦ Πυθαγορικοῦ βίου

Busto de Pitágoras (Museos Capitolinos)
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The first book of a ten-book work on Pythagoreanism. It narrates the birth, the journeys, the arrival in Croton and the speeches to youths, elders and women, describes life in the community—the five-year silence, the testing of candidates, friendship, diet, music as medicine for the soul—, lists the miracles, recounts Cylon's conspiracy and closes with a catalogue of Pythagoreans: 218 men and 17 women. It is the longest surviving source on Pythagoras.

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Authorship note

A work by the Neoplatonist Iamblichus of Chalcis (c. 245–325 CE), written some eight centuries after Pythagoras' death. It combines valuable old sources (Aristoxenus, Timaeus of Tauromenium, Nicomachus, Apollonius) with religious idealisation: its Pythagoras is a soul sent by the gods to save mankind. Low reliability for facts, high as evidence of late Pythagoreanism.

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English

  • On the Pythagorean Way of Life (Texts and Translations 29) — Pythagoras

    On the Pythagorean Way of Life (Texts and Translations 29)

    Scholars Press, 1991

    Translation: John Dillon y Jackson Hershbell

    ISBN 9781555405236

    Edición bilingüe griego-inglés; registro de Open Library de 1992.

  • The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library — Pythagoras

    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.

  • Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life

    A. J. Valpy, Londres (Project Gutenberg n.º 63300), 1818

    Translation: Thomas Taylor

    Dominio público.

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  • Vida pitagórica. Protréptico

    Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos), 2003

    Translation: Miguel Periago Lorente

    ISBN 9788424923976

  • Vidas de Pitágoras — Pythagoras

    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.

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Sources

  • Jámblico. Sobre la vida pitagórica (De vita Pythagorica), c. 300 d. C.; ed. L. Deubner, Teubner, Leipzig, 1937. Trad. inglesa de Thomas Taylor, Londres, 1818 (Project Gutenberg n.º 63300), y de John Dillon y Jackson Hershbell, Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1991.

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