PhilosophersPythagore de Samos
Pythagore de Samos
All is number.
PresocraticsVIe s. av. J.-C. GreeceMaster of a community of disciplesTaught the passing of souls from body to body (according to tradition)Mathematician according to legendKnown only through witnesses
VIe s. av.
Testimonies about Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Diels-Kranz 14 and 58) essential
This is not a book by Pythagoras. These are passages from Aristotle (on the Pythagoreans), Heraclitus, Xenophanes and Diogenes Laertius gathered by the editors Diels and Kranz. Each excerpt on this page names who reports it.
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Three books: On Education, On Statesmanship, On Nature
Diogenes Laertius (c. 230 AD) says Pythagoras wrote these three books, after noting that some maintain he wrote nothing. He adds that the book that circulates under his name is by Lysis of Tarentum, a Pythagorean. Nothing survives.
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Letter "Pythagoras to Anaximenes"
Letter reported by Diogenes Laertius (VIII 49-50), of doubtful authenticity according to our corpus. We do not quote it.