Pythagoras/Bibliography
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Primary sources
- Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum VIII (Lives of Eminent Philosophers) c. 200, which in turn refers to the lost work Successions of Philosophers by Alexander Polyhistor) — Pythagoras, translated by C.D. Yonge
- Porphyry, Vita Pythagorae (Life of Pythagoras), c. 270
- Iamblichus, De Vita Pythagorica (On the Pythagorean Life), c. 300.
- Apuleius also writes about Pythagoras in Apologia, including a story of him being taught by Babylonian disciples of Zoroaster, c. 150.
- Hierocles, 1983. Golden Verses of Pythagoras, Concord Grove Press
Secondary sources
- Bell, Eric Temple, The Magic of Numbers, Dover, New York, 1991. ISBN 0-486-26788-1
- Burkert, Walter. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism, Harvard University Press, June 1, 1972. ISBN 0-674-53918-4
- Firth M. Florence. 1904. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, Kessinger Publishing
- Guthrie, K.L. (Ed.), The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library, Phanes, Grand Rapids, 1987. ISBN 0-933999-51-8
- Guthrie W. K. 1979. A History of Geek Philosophy — Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-29420-7
- Hermann, Arnold (2005). To Think like God: Pythagoras and Parmenides — The Origins of Philosophy. Parmenides Publishing. ISBN 978-1-930972-00-1
- Maziarz, Edward A. and Thomas Greenwood, Greek Mathematical Philosophy ISBN 1-56619-954-9
- O'Meara, Dominic J. Pythagoras Revived, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989. ISBN 0-19-823913-0 (paperback), ISBN 0-19-824485-1 (hardcover)