The Pythagorean Succession

• Porphyry
• Photius
• Diogenes Laertius
  i) Early Life
  ii) Studies
  iii) Initiations
  iv) Transmigration
  v) Works
  vi) General Views on Life
  vii) Ages of Life
  viii) Social Customs
  ix) Distinguished Appearance
  x) Women Deified by Marriage
  xi) Scientific culture
  xii) Diet and Sacrifices
  xiii) Measures and Weights
  xiv) Hesperus Identified with Lucifer
  xv) Students and Reputations
  xvi) Friendship Founded on Symbols
  xvii) Symbols or Maxims
  xviii) Personal Habits
  xix) Various Teachings
  xx) Poetic Testimonies
  xxi) Death of Pythagoras
  xxii) Pythagoras’s Family
  xxiii) Ridiculing Epigrams
  xxiv) Last Pythagoreans
  xxv) Various Pythagoras Namesakes
  xxvi) Pythagoras’s Letter to Anaximenes
  xxvii) Empedocles’s Connection

• Introduction
• Symbols of Pythagoras (570-500 B.C.)
• Golden Verses of Pythagoras (ca. 350 B.C.)
• Philolaus
  • Biography
  • Fragments
• Archytas of Tarentum (400 B.C.)
  • Biography
  • Fragments