Greek arithmology: Pythagoras or Plato?

This essay considers the origins of the arithmological genre, the first specimen of which was an anonymous Neopythagorean treatise of the first century BCE. Arithmology as a special genre of philosophical writings dealing with the properties of the first ten numbers should be distinguished from numb...

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Main Author: Leonid Zhmud
Format: Article
Language:ell
Published: Novosibirsk State University Press 2017-07-01
Series:SCHOLE
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Online Access:http://www.nsu.ru/classics/schole/11/11-2-zhmud.pdf