Pythagorean knowledge from the ancient to the modern world : askesis religion science Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Body Andrew James Johnston and Gyburg Uhlmann: Preface Almut Barbara Renger & Alessandro Stavru: Introduction I Orphika Alberto Bernabé: Transfer of Afterlife Knowledge in Pythagorean Eschatology Francesc Casadesús Bordoy: The Appropriation of the Figure of Orpheus and Orphic Doctrines: An Example of Pythagoras Artful Knavery (kakotechnie) Luc Brisson: The Making of Pythagoreanism: Orpheus Aglaophamus Pythagoras Plato II Metempsychosis Richard McKirahan: Philolaus on the Soul Sylvana Chrysakopoulou: Is Parmenides a Pythagorean Plato on Theoria as a Vision of the Soul Gabriele Cornelli: Aristotle and the Pythagorean Myths of Metempsychosis Bernd Roling: Pythagoras and Christian Eschatology: The Debate on the Transmigration of Souls in Early Scholasticism III Tropos tou biou Maurizio Giangiulio: Aristoxenus and Timaeus on the Pythagorean Way of Life Claudia Montepaone & Marcello Catarzi: Pythagorean Askesis in Timycha of Sparta and Theano of Croton Ilaria Ramelli: The Sentences of Sextus and the Christian Transformation of Pythagorean Asceticism Irini Fotini Viltanioti: Porphyrys Letter to Marcella. A Literary Attack on Christian Appropriation of (Neo)Pythagorean Moral Wisdom Luca Arcari: Reinventing the Pythagorean Tradition in Pseudo Justins Cohortatio ad Graecos Dirk Baltzly: Transformations of Pythagorean Wisdom and Psychic ἄσκησις in Proclus Timaeus Commentary Ada Palmer: The Active and Monastic Life in Humanist Biographies of Pythagoras Jan N. Bremmer: Richard Reitzenstein Pythagoras and the Life of Antony IV Dietetics & Medicine Stavros Kouloumentas: The Pythagoreans on Medicine: Religion or Science Andrew Barker: Pythagoreans and Medical Writers on Periods of Human Gestation. Hynek Bartoš: Iamblichus on Pythagorean Dietetics V Music Antonietta Provenza: The Pythagoreans and the Therapeutic Effects of the Paean between Religion Paideia and Politics Emidio Spinelli: Are Flute Players Better than Philosophers Sextus Empiricus on Music Against Pythagoras VI Number & Harmony Leonid Zhmud: Greek Arithmology: Pythagoras or Plato Eugene Afonasin: Pythagorean Numerology and Diophantus Arithmetica: A Note on Hippolytus Elenchos I 2 Anna Izdebska: The Pythagorean Metaphysics of Numbers in the Works of the Ikhwān al Ṣafāʼ and al Shahrastāni Christiane L. Joost Gaugier: Pythagoras and the Perfect Churches of the Renaissance Wilhelm Schmidt Biggemann: Kabbalah as a Transfer of Pythagorean Number Theory: The Case of Johannes Reuchlins De Arte Cabalistica Samuel Galson: Unfolding Pythagoras: Leibniz Myth and Mathesis VII Refractions Tengiz Iremadze: The Pythagorean Doctrine in the Caucasus Beate Ulrike La Sala: Ibn Sīnās and Al Ghazālīs Approach to Pythagoreanism Denis Robichaud: Marsilio Ficino and Platos Divided Line: Iamblichus and Pythagorean Pseudepigrapha in the Renaissance Hanns Peter Neumann: Pythagoras Refracted: The Formation of Pythagoreanism in the Early Modern Period Appendix: Three Texts on Pythagorean Way of Life Emily Cottrell: Pythagoras the Wandering Ascetic: A Reconstruction of the Life of Pythagoras According to al Mubashshir ibn Fātik and Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻa* Ada Palmer: Two Humanist Lives of Pythagoras Indexes Index of Topics Index of Passages Index of Ancient Names Index of Medieval and Modern Names Notes on Authors