Review text: "Der Leser erhält einen guten Einblick in das komplexe Phänomen des antiken Pythagoreismus in seiner neuplatonischen Variante. Matthias Perkams in: Verkündigung und Forschung 2/2007 " ... a book no scholar of late antiquity can afford to overlook it. ... In short, t…
Drawing on recent scholarship and delving systematically into Iamblichean texts, these ten papers establish Iamblichus as the great innovator of Neoplatonic philosophy who broadened its appeal for future generations of philosophers.
"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 Pl…
