The writings of theologians Thierry of Chartres (d. 1157) and Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) represent a lost history of momentous encounters between Christianity and Pythagorean ideas before the Renaissance. Their robust Christian Neopythagoreanism reconceived the Trinity and the I…
In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many repr…
In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many repr…
This portrait of the Pythagorean tradition includes an account of the neo-Pythagorean revival and ends with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.
This portrait of the Pythagorean tradition includes an account of the neo-Pythagorean revival and ends with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.
"In Pythagorean Women, classical scholar Sarah B. Pomeroy discusses the groundbreaking principles that Pythagoras established for family life in Archaic Greece, such as constituting a single standard of sexual conduct for women and men. Among the Pythagoreans, women played an im…
