{"product_id":"pythagoras-and-the-early-pythagoreans-9780199289318","title":"Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn ancient tradition, Pythagoras (c. 570 - c. 495 BC) emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and a religious and ethical reformer. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguably the most influential thinker among the Presocratics, he was thought to have possessed supernatural qualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis combination of characteristics has led to his portrayal as a controversial and elusive figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn contrast, his early Pythagorean followers, such as the doctors Democedes and Alcmaeon, the Olympic victors Milon and Iccus, the botanist Menestor, the natural philosopher Hippon, and the mathematicians Hippasus and Theodorus, all appear in our sources as 'rational' as they can possibly be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers, allowing the representations to complement and critique each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing sources dating back to before 300 BC,  Zhmud portrays a more historical picture of Pythagoras and of the political society founded by him in Croton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith chapters devoted to the sciences, philosophy, and religion cultivated by Pythagoreans, a critical distinction is made between the theories of individual Pythagoreans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey were as 'normal' as any other Presocratic, a 'normality' that ensured the continued existence of Pythagoreanism as a philosophical and scientific school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonid Zhmud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199289318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeonid Zhmud\u003c\/strong\u003e has been working at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology in St. Petersburg since 1987 and is currently a leading academic researcher. In 1989, together with Lev Lurje, he founded the first Classical High School in Leningrad (Gymnasium Classicum Petropolitanum).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1990-2010 he held a vaiety of positions and fellowships, such such as the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Constance University, Germany, Junior fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, visiting fellowship at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, and member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is the author of \u003cem\u003eWissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im fruhen Pythagoreismus\u003c\/em\u003e (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1997), and \u003cem\u003eThe Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity\u003c\/em\u003e (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2006).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39934196940915,"sku":"019928931X","price":448.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_47a22ef0-8f75-4f5b-9fcc-0dbeb9ff6016.jpg?v=1647877379","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/pythagoras-and-the-early-pythagoreans-9780199289318","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}