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5 results for "pythagoras"
1. Empedocles, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 60
2. Euripides, Antiope (Fragmenta Antiopes ), None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •pythagoras xxv, empedocles on Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 60
3. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 4.155 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •pythagoras xxv, empedocles on Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 60
4. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 8.34 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •pythagoras xxv, empedocles on Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 60
8.34. According to Aristotle in his work On the Pythagoreans, Pythagoras counselled abstinence from beans either because they are like the genitals, or because they are like the gates of Hades . . . as being alone unjointed, or because they are injurious, or because they are like the form of the universe, or because they belong to oligarchy, since they are used in election by lot. He bade his disciples not to pick up fallen crumbs, either in order to accustom them not to eat immoderately, or because connected with a person's death; nay, even, according to Aristophanes, crumbs belong to the heroes, for in his Heroes he says:Nor taste ye of what falls beneath the board !Another of his precepts was not to eat white cocks, as being sacred to the Month and wearing suppliant garb – now supplication ranked with things good – sacred to the Month because they announce the time of day; and again white represents the nature of the good, black the nature of evil. Not to touch such fish as were sacred; for it is not right that gods and men should be allotted the same things, any more than free men and slaves.
5. Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 19 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •pythagoras xxv, empedocles on Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 60
19. Through this he achieved great reputation, he drew great audiences from the city, not only of men, but also of women, among whom was a specially illustrious person named Theano. He also drew audiences from among the neighboring barbarians, among whom were magnates and kings. What he told his audiences cannot be said with certainty, for he enjoined silence upon his hearers. But the following is a matter of general information. He taught that the soul was immortal and that after death it transmigrated into other animated bodies. After certain specified periods, the same events occur again; that nothing was entirely new; that all animated beings were kin, and should be considered as belonging to one great family. Pythagoras was the first one to introduce these teachings into Greece. SPAN