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subject	book bibliographic info
echecrates	Cornelli (2013), In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category, 249, 323, 340 Huffman (2019), A History of Pythagoreanism, 10, 83, 85, 86, 125
echecrates, pythagorean	Erler et al. (2021), Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, 124

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2 validated results for "echecrates"

1. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Echecrates

Found in books: Cornelli (2013), In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category, 323; Huffman (2019), A History of Pythagoreanism, 86

^600b συνουσίᾳ καὶ τοῖς ὑστέροις ὁδόν τινα παρέδοσαν βίου Ὁμηρικήν, ὥσπερ Πυθαγόρας αὐτός τε διαφερόντως ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἠγαπήθη, καὶ οἱ ὕστεροι ἔτι καὶ νῦν Πυθαγόρειον τρόπον ἐπονομάζοντες τοῦ βίου διαφανεῖς πῃ δοκοῦσιν εἶναι ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις;'' None

^600b and transmitted to posterity a certain Homeric way of life just as Pythagoras was himself especially honored for this, and his successors, even to this day, denominating a certain way of life the Pythagorean, are distinguished among their contemporaries? No, nothing of this sort either is reported; for Creophylos, Socrates, the friend of Homer, would perhaps be even more ridiculous than his name as a representative of Homeric culture and education, if what is said about Homer is true. For the tradition is that Homer was completely neglected in his own lifetime by that friend of the flesh.'' None

2. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 8.46 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Echecrates

Found in books: Cornelli (2013), In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category, 249; Huffman (2019), A History of Pythagoreanism, 10, 83, 85, 86

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8.46 For the last of the Pythagoreans, whom Aristoxenus in his time saw, were Xenophilus from the Thracian Chalcidice, Phanton of Phlius, and Echecrates, Diocles and Polymnastus, also of Phlius, who were pupils of Philolaus and Eurytus of Tarentum.There were four men of the name of Pythagoras living about the same time and at no great distance from one another: (1) of Croton, a man with tyrannical leanings; (2) of Phlius, an athlete, some say a trainer; (3) of Zacynthus; (4) our subject, who discovered the secrets of philosophy, and to whom was applied the phrase, The Master said (Ipse dixit), which passed into a proverb of ordinary life.'' None

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