Traditional attribution
Sacred Discourse (Hieros logos)
Ἱερὸς λόγος
Only fragments and quotations survive in Iamblichus, Syrianus and other late authors, with speculations on numbers as the essence of the gods and a supposed revelation received in an Orphic initiation. Ion of Chios, in the fifth century BCE, already mentioned that Pythagoras had attributed poems to Orpheus.
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Authorship note
Spurious. Several works attributed to Pythagoras circulated under this title, one in Doric prose and another in hexameters, probably composed in the Hellenistic period. Some ancients ascribed it to his son Telauges or to other Pythagoreans.
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.
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
- Books on Education, Politics and Nature · 300
- Letters of Pythagoras · 100
- Pseudo-Pythagorean writings · 200
- Fragments of Philolaus of Croton · 420
Sources
- Riedweg, Christoph. Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence, trad. Steven Rendall. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2005 (orig.: Pythagoras. Leben, Lehre, Nachwirkung, C. H. Beck, Múnich, 2002).
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