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Mar 2023
20m 36s

Pythagoras & The Music of the Spheres

FILIP HOLM
About this episode

We continue our exploration of Pythagoreanism by diving into the music of the spheres, and how this idea has influenced thinkers across history.


Sources/Recomended Reading:

  • Cooper, John M. (ed.) (1997). "Plato: Complete Works". Hackett Publishing Company.
  • Huffman, Carl A. (2008). "Philolaus of Croton: A Commentary on the Fragments and Testimonia with Interprative Essays". Cambridge University Press.
  • Huffman, Carl A. (ed.) (2017). "A History of Pythagoreanism". Cambridge University Press.
  • Kirk, G.S., J.E. Raven & M. Schofield (1983). "The Presocratic Philosophers". Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.
  • Klavan, Spencer A. (2020). "Music in Ancient Greece: Melody, Rhythm and Life". Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Zhmud, Leonid (2012). "Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans". Translated by Kevin Windle & Rosh Ireland. OUP Oxford.

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