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  • Chapter 3 - Archytas

  • Edited by Carl A. Huffman, DePauw University, Indiana
  • Book:
    A History of Pythagoreanism
    Published online:
    05 May 2014
    Print publication:
    24 April 2014, pp 69-87

  • Summary

    Archytas, a citizen of Tarentum on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy, and a contemporary of Plato, is a significant figure in the history of ancient Greek science. Carl Huffman offers a restrained account of Archytas so far as his work on music and in geometry is concerned. Diogenes Laertius includes an account of Archytas in the Pythagorean Book 8 of his Lives. The chapter discusses the main substance of Diogenes' biographical account. In commenting on Aristotle's Categories the sixth-century-AD Neoplatonist Simplicius quotes extensively from earlier authorities, included among them Archytas. The "Archytean writings" sounds like an abbreviated reference to the Extracts; and if that work demonstrated similarities between Plato's dialogue and passages from Archytas, the Timaeus' account of the receptacle and the movements to which it is subject would be a natural candidate for treatment.