The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Pythagoras, covering the evidentiary problem historians call the Pythagorean question and Walter Burkert's influence on the field.
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Carl Huffman's Pythagoras entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is peer reviewed and continuously maintained under the SEP's dedicated academic editorial process, treated at the top tier as peer reviewed specialist scholarship. NotesWritten by Carl Huffman, a specialist in early Greek philosophy and Pythagoreanism. First published 2005-02-23 and substantively revised 2024-02-05. Peer-edited academic reference; reliable for the state of scholarly argument on the historical Pythagoras.
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AuthorCarl Huffman
PublisherStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University
Publication Year2005
URLhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/
Source Typereference article
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
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