Английская Википедия:Eurytus (Pythagorean)

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Шаблон:Short description Eurytus (Шаблон:IPAc-en; Шаблон:Lang-grc-gre; fl. 400 BC) was an eminent Pythagorean philosopher from Magna Graecia who Iamblichus in one passage[1] describes as a native of Croton, while in another,[2] he enumerates him among the Tarentine Pythagoreans.

Biography

Eurytus was a disciple of Philolaus, and Diogenes Laërtius[3] mentions him among the teachers of Plato, though this statement is very doubtful. It is uncertain whether Eurytus was the author of any work, unless we suppose that the fragment in Stobaeus,[4] which is there ascribed to one Eurytus, belongs to this Eurytus.

Through a dubious commentary to Aristotle's Metaphysics a caricatural image of Eurytus has gained wide currency. A mediaeval writer confused with Alexander of Aphrodisias presented Eurytos as a kind of mosaic-setter who delineated various shapes with some definite number of pebbles.[5] Шаблон:Quote

Reviel Netz forcefully commented that "pseudo-Alexander’s picture of Eurytus the mosaicist is a non-starter for it is evidently idiotic"and he noted that "while Theophrastus and Aristotle both consider Eurytus’ results patently false, nothing suggests they consider his procedure silly".[5] Taking in account specific mathematical usage he suggested an emended translation of the original passage from Aristotle's work (Metaphysics 1092b9-13):

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According to the historian's from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Philolaus and Eurytus are identified by Aristoxenus as teachers of the last generation of Pythagoreans (D. L. VIII 46).[6] An Echecrates is mentioned by Aristoxenus as a student of Philolaus and Eurytus. (p. 166)[7]

References

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  1. Iamblichus, de Vit. Pyth. 28
  2. Iamblichus, de Vit. Pyth. 36
  3. Diogenes Laërtius iii. 6, viii. 46
  4. Stobaeus, Phys. Ecl. i.
  5. 5,0 5,1 Reviel Netz,The problem of Pythagorean mathematics in A History of Pythagoreanism, ed C. Huffman, Cambridge UP, 2014: " Pseudo-Alexander, writing not earlier than late antiquity and probably in Byzantium, tried to imagine Eurytus’ procedure; he ended up with Eurytus the mosaicist...(p.175)"
  6. Шаблон:Cite web
  7. Шаблон:Cite book