This original collection of essays by some of the best world specialists of ancient Greek
philosophy focuses on the philosophical texts written during the Hellenistic and Imperial times
under the names of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Their unknown authors claimed to convey the
positions of the pristine Pythagorean School on metaphysics theology number philosophy
physics logic political philosophy ethics and the proper way to live. The most audacious
among them presented themselves as the sources from which Plato and Aristotle drew inspiration
for the Timaeus and the Categories and they were considered authoritative by most ancient
thinkers thus leading to a renaissance of the Platonic and Pythagorean tradition. With
contributions by Luc Brisson Marco Donato Tiziano Dorandi Marc-Antoine Gavray Carole
Hofstetter Phillip Sidney Horky Anna Izdebska Adrien Lecerf Constantinos Macris Rosa Maria
Piccione Lucia Saudelli Francesca Scrofani Johan C. Thom Matteo Varoli und Leonid Zhmud.
