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The Eternal Return. Apocatastasis and its Manifestations in Ancient Philosophies: Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Zoroastrianism, Platonism and Gnosticism [PDF]

Eon
This study explores the acceptances of the concept of apocatastasis in five of the most influential philosophical and religious traditions of antiquity: Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Platonism, Gnosticism and Zoroastrianism.
Alexandru LAZĂR
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SILENUS’ SONG (VIRGIL ECL. 6.27-86) —A SOURCE FOR OVID’S PYTHAGOREANISM IN THE METAMORPHOSES ?

Tópicos, 2013
Pythagorean ideas in Silenus’ song in Virgil’s Eclogue 6 are set out. The role of music in ordering a transcendent, stable world and changing cosmos and in accessing the transcendent world is shown to be stressed by Virgil. A modern-philosophical account
Marcus Nabielek
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Misurare la terra. Considerazioni sul caso siciliano a partire dalla fondazione di Zancle in Callimaco

Pallas, 2019
This article aims to relate Callimachus’ poetry with the measurement and distribution of land in a colonial environment. Certain words used by Callimachus in his description of the foundation of Zancle and in some other episodes (for example γεωδαῖται ...
Ivan Matijašić
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The 'Pseudopythagorica' and their Philosophical Background. A discussion of Angela Ulacco, 'Pseudopythagorica Dorica'

Mediterranea, 2019
This is a review article of Angela Ulacco’s recent Italian translation, with introduction and commentary, of four pseudo-Pythagorean treatises. Part 1 focuses on the philosophical background of the Pseudopythagorica and, more precisely, on the connection
Riccardo Chiaradonna
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Cry "Good for history, Cambridge and Saint George"? Essay Review of Mary Jo Nye (Ed.); The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 5. The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) [PDF]

, 2004
FIRST PARAGRAPH This volume is the third thus far published of The Cambridge history of science, planned in eight parts over the last decade by Cambridge University Press.
Gooday, G.
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The Relevance of Pythagoreanism in the Poetry of Zambrano

Filozofia
In this paper, we are interested in pointing out the importance of Pythagoreanism as a possible philosophical path to sustain Western thought, according to María Zambrano’s criteria.
Ethel Junco, Claudio César Calabrese
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A Pythagorean Inequality [PDF]

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1995
Let { v 1 , v 2 , v 3 , … } \{ {v_1},{v_2},{v_3}, \ldots \} be a sequence of elements of a Hilbert space, and suppose that (one or both of)
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Heracles's weariness and apotheosis in Classical Greek art

Synthesis (La Plata), 2018
In this paper, I propose a general interpretation of images showing the physical exhaustion and apotheosis of Heracles that were produced during the Classical period.
Antonio Orlando Dourado Lopes
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Whitehead and Pythagoras [PDF]

, 2006
While the appeal of scientific materialism has been weakened by developments in theoretical physics, chemistry and biology, Pythagoreanism still attracts the allegiance of leading scientists and mathematicians.
Gare, Arran
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The Attunement Theory of the Soul in the Phaedo [PDF]

, 2020
At Phaedo 86b7–c2 Simmias puts forward the theory that the soul is the attunement of bodily elements. Many scholars have claimed that this theory originates in the Pythagoreans, especially Philolaus.
Iwata, Naoya
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