12-09-2020, 09:49 PM
Steven James wrote:
Cicero comments that Rome was influenced by Pythagorean doctrines. Plutarch claims that Pythagoras was made a Roman citizen. Others write that Pythagoras changed the constitution of many cities in Italy.
Diogenes Laertius 8.14-15
And that is why the Lucanians and the Peucetians, the Messapians and the Romans remained attached to him and came to him to listen to his discourses.
Porphyry Life of Pythagoras 22
[22] As Aristoxenus says, there came to him Lucanians, Messapians, Peucetians, and Romans.
At this moment I am writing a paper that explains a possible discovery of a lost key of Pythagoras in relation to Roman history. This breakthrough was achieved in a very simple manner: You only need to listen very carefully to what the ancient Pythagorean philosophers say and calculate accordingly. Most modern scholars don't understand this principle and therefore start to doubt the histories, but I have proven the veracity of the primary sources, together with the help of a few chosen scholars that escaped the mind-bug which modern Academia has been afflicted with. With a humble disposition we have to admit the mundane truth that at one moment in time many Italian cities were addicted to the tenets of the Pythagorean doctrine.
Cicero comments that Rome was influenced by Pythagorean doctrines. Plutarch claims that Pythagoras was made a Roman citizen. Others write that Pythagoras changed the constitution of many cities in Italy.
Diogenes Laertius 8.14-15
And that is why the Lucanians and the Peucetians, the Messapians and the Romans remained attached to him and came to him to listen to his discourses.
Porphyry Life of Pythagoras 22
[22] As Aristoxenus says, there came to him Lucanians, Messapians, Peucetians, and Romans.
At this moment I am writing a paper that explains a possible discovery of a lost key of Pythagoras in relation to Roman history. This breakthrough was achieved in a very simple manner: You only need to listen very carefully to what the ancient Pythagorean philosophers say and calculate accordingly. Most modern scholars don't understand this principle and therefore start to doubt the histories, but I have proven the veracity of the primary sources, together with the help of a few chosen scholars that escaped the mind-bug which modern Academia has been afflicted with. With a humble disposition we have to admit the mundane truth that at one moment in time many Italian cities were addicted to the tenets of the Pythagorean doctrine.
