Numenius is one of the most important authors who, in Imperial Age, deal with figure Socrates. Socrates Platon­ic tradition, particular sceptical when Socratic dubitative “spirit” first Platonic dialogues became to justify “suspension judgement.” criticises whole Academic tradition by saying that Academics (particularly sceptics) betrayed original doctrine Plato and formulated a new image For N...

This essay advances a series of strong theses about Plato’s philosophy and aims to corroborate the view of Aristotle and other members of the early Academy that it was fundamentally Pythagorean. The argument reconcep tualises the literary strategies of the dialogues and thus requires some his torical stage-setting. The argument is inductive in form. This means that it gains in strength by accum...

The connection between architecture and science and sound based on mathematical relations has continued to develop[ since the rise of the Western classical civilization that originated in Ancient Greece. The mysterious Pythagorean cosmology pursued as secret esoteric knowledge was related to the search of rhythm, proportionality and harmony. Even somewhat earlier, Greek mysteries were based on ...

(vastly abbreviated and horribly simpliied) Michaa l Walicki 1997 The term \logic" may be, very roughly and vaguely, associated with something like \correct thinking". Aristotle deened a syllogism as \discourse in which, certain things being stated something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so." And, in fact, this intuition not only lies at its origin, ca. 500 BC,...

The mystery tradition known as Orphism is often misunderstood, largely due to the lack of evidence in existence. Mystery traditions are initiatory in nature; to reveal the secret information to non-initiates was forbidden, in some instances punishable by death. This secretive nature of mystery traditions makes it very difficult for modern scholars to discern what actually occurred within the cu...