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Time and Pythagorean Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. F. Burnyeat
Affiliation:
King's College, Cambridge

Extract

It is, I think, a fair presumption to suppose that there was some bond uniting all the different aspects of Pythagoras' thought, a bond strong enough to satisfy Pythagoras himself, but loose enough for the to be able, later, to cast off the religious and mystical doctrines without endangering the rest.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1962

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