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Life of Pythagoras (De Vita Pythagorica)

Iamblichus

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~110,000 words · 525 passages
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Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras.

Context and history

Written around 300, nearly eight hundred years after its subject, as the first book of an introduction to Pythagorean philosophy. **It should be read knowing that**: it is not a biography but an exemplary life, and much of the Pythagoras Western culture inherited — the community, the precepts, the marvels — comes from here rather than from any contemporary source.

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