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Aristoxenus of Tarentum : the Pythagorean precepts (how to live a Pythagorean life) : an edition of and commentary on the fragments with an introduction
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Aristoxenus of Tarentum : the Pythagorean precepts (how to live a Pythagorean life) : an edition of and commentary on the fragments with an introduction / [edited by] Carl A. Huffman.
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9781108425315
1108425313
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xi, 636 pages ; 23 cm
Variant and related titles
Pythagorean precepts
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English; Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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February 12, 2020
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction
Evidence for the work: the excerpts preserved in Stobaeus
Title and nature of the work
Format and style of the work
Fragments of the Pythagorean precepts preserved in Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean way of life
A comparison of Stobaeus' and Iamblichus' evidence for the Pythagorean precepts
Relationship of the Pythagorean precepts to Aristoxenus' other works on the Pythagoreans
The influence of the Pythagorean precepts on the later Pythagorean tradition
History of scholarship on the Pythagorean precepts
The standard view of the Pythagorean precepts
The ethical system of the Pythagorean precepts
Fragments with translation and commentary
The Pythagorean precepts: a reconstructed text in English
Fragment 1: obedience to parents and the laws (fr. 34 Wehrli = Stobaeus 4.25.45)
Fragment 2: the importance of order and supervision for every age of life (fr. 35 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 4.1.49)
Fragment 3: desire (fr. 37 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 3.10.66)
Fragment 4: the generation of children (fr. 39 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 4.37.4)
Fragment 5: the love of what is beautiful and fine (fr. 40 Wehrli = Stobaeus 3.1.101)
Fragment 6: learning must be willing (fr. 36 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 2.31.119)
Fragment 7: luck (fr. 41 Wehrli = Stobaeus, 1.6.18)
Fragment 8: human nature is prone to excess and needs the supervision of the gods, parents and laws (fr. 33 Wehrli, Iamblichus, vp 174-6)
Fragment 9: opinion, the training of children and young people, pleasure, desire, diet, and the generation of children (fr. 38 Wehrli, Iamblichus, vp 200-13)
Fragment 10: the appropriate and the inappropriate in human interaction on starting points and rulers (Iamblichus, vp 180-3)
Fragment 11: friendship (Iamblichus, vp 101-2, 230-3)
Appendices
Subsidiary precepts 1: avoid crowds in the morning, and 2: avoid hunting (Iamblichus, vp 96-100)
Subsidiary precept 3: memory (Iamblichus, vp 164)
Subsidiary precept 4: all sex is harmful (Diodorus Siculus, library of history 10.9.3), Stobaeus, Eclogae 3.1.71: divination, medicine, and music
Concordance with the fragment numbers in Wehrli's edition.
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