Format:
1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
1350127647
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9781350127685
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9781350127661
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9781350127647
Series Statement:
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Content:
"On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus ( c . 245 CE?early 320s) on the Pythagoreans. He thought the Pythagoreans had treated mathematics as essential for drawing the human soul upwards to higher realms described by Plato, and downwards to understand the physical cosmos, the products of arts and crafts and the order required for an ethical life. His Pythagorean treatises use edited quotation to re-tell the history of philosophy, presenting Plato and Aristotle as passing on the ideas invented by Pythagoras and his early followers. Although his quotations tend to come instead from Plato and later Pythagoreanising Platonists, this re-interpretation had a huge impact on the Neoplatonist commentators in Athens. Iamblichus' cleverness, if not to the same extent his re-interpretation, was appreciated by the commentators in Alexandria."--
Content:
Preface / Richard Sorabji -- Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Sebastian Gertz Iamblichus' Projects and Genres Richard Sorabji -- Textual Emendations Translation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- English-Greek Glossary -- Greek-English Index -- Index of Passages -- Subject Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350127685
Author information:
Iamblichus Chalcidensis 250-325
Author information:
Dillon, John M. 1939-
