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1Pythagorean Number Doctrine in the AcademyIn Gabriele Cornelli, Richard D. McKirahan & Constantinos Macris (eds.), On Pythagoreanism, De Gruyter. pp. 323-344. 2013.
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6The MenaechmiApeiron 56 (3): 577-586. 2023.In the mid-first century BC Geminus of Rhodes, a scientist and philosopher close to Posidonius, composed a comprehensive Theory of Mathematical Sciences, in the surviving fragments of which the numerous characters are referred to plainly by name, with some of them being namesakes of other, more well-known mathematicians and philosophers. This paper tries to set apart the namesakes of Geminus, of which there are four in his fragments: Theodorus, Hippias, Oenopides, and Menaechmus.
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3Revising doxography: Hermann diels and his criticsPhilologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 145 (2): 219-243. 2001.
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494The Papyrological Tradition on Pythagoras and the PythagoreansIn Christian Vassallo (ed.), Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition: A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources.Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at the University of Trier, De Gruyter. pp. 111-146. 2019.
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1380Heraclitus on PythagorasIn Enrica Fantino, Ulrike Muss, Charlotte Schubert & Kurt Sier (eds.), Heraklit Im Kontext, De Gruyter. pp. 171-186. 2017.
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555Ancient Greek Mathēmata from a Sociological Perspective: A Quantitative AnalysisIsis 109 (3): 445-472. 2018.This essay examines the quantitative aspects of Greco-Roman science, represented by a group of established disci¬plines, which since the fourth century BC were called mathēmata or mathē¬ma¬tikai epistē¬mai. In the group of mathēmata that in Antiquity normally comprised mathematics, mathematical astronomy, harmonics, mechanics and optics, we have also included geography. Using a dataset based on The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, our essay considers a community of mathēmatikoi (as t…Read more
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Греческая арифмология: Пифагор или платон?Schole 11 (2): 428-459. 2017.This essay considers the origins of the arithmological genre, the first specimen of which was an anonymous Neopythagorean treatise of the first century BCE. Arithmology as a special genre of philosophical writings dealing with the properties of the first ten numbers should be distinguished from number symbolism, which is a universal cultural phenomenon related to individual significant numbers. As our analysis shows, the philosophical foundations of arithmology were laid down in the treatise of …Read more
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11Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption I. Symposium Aristotelicum (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 100 (2): 163-164. 2007.
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580What is Pythagorean in the Pseudo-Pythagorean Literature?Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 163 (1): 72-94. 2019.This paper discusses continuity between ancient Pythagoreanism and the pseudo-Pythagorean writings, which began to appear after the end of the Pythagorean school ca. 350 BC. Relying on a combination of temporal, formal and substantial criteria, I divide Pseudopythagorica into three categories: 1) early Hellenistic writings ascribed to Pythagoras and his family members; 2) philosophical treatises written mostly, yet not exclusively, in pseudo-Doric from the turn of the first century BC under the …Read more
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159Pseudo-Plutarch und Stobaios: Eine synoptische Untersuchung by Heike Bottler (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 110 (3): 424-426. 2017.
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77Pythagoras and the Early PythagoreansOxford University Press. 2012.In ancient tradition, Pythagoras emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. This volume offers a comprehensive study of Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the early Pythagoreans through an analysis of the many representations of the individual and his followers
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633Plato as "Architect of Science"Phronesis 43 (3): 211-244. 1998.The figure of the cordial host of the Academy, who invited the most gifted mathematicians and cultivated pure research, whose keen intellect was able if not to solve the particular problem then at least to show the method for its solution: this figure is quite familiar to students of Greek science. But was the Academy as such a center of scientific research, and did Plato really set for mathematicians and astronomers the problems they should study and methods they should use? Our sources tell ab…Read more
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773Pythagoras’ northern connections: Zalmoxis, abaris, aristeasClassical Quarterly 66 (2): 446-462. 2016.Apart from his teachings, wonders and scientific discoveries, Pythagoras was also known for his wide-ranging journeys. Ancient authors alleged that he visited many countries and nations from Egypt to India, stayed with the Phoenicians and the Ethiopians and talked to the Persian Magi and Gallic Druids. However, he never went to the North. If, nevertheless, he was eventually associated with the northern inhabitants, it is only because they themselves came into close contact with him. The first of…Read more
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21Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease (review)Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 102 (1): 90-91. 2008.Review
Leonid Zhmud
Institute for The History of Science and Technology, RAS
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Institute for The History of Science and Technology, RASRegular Faculty
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |