Cleanthes, Chrysippus and the Pythagorean Golden Verses

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dc.contributor.authorThom, Johan C.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-23T11:47:30Z
dc.date.available2013-01-23T11:47:30Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.descriptionCITATION: Thom, J. C. 2001. Cleanthes, Chrysippus and the Pythagorean Golden Verses. Acta Classica, 44(1).
dc.description.abstractThis article re-examines the literary relationship between the Stoics Cleanthes and Chrysippus and the Pythagorean Golden Verses. Contrary to scholarly consensus, I shall argue that the two Stoics show literary dependence on the Pythagorean poem, and not vice versa. Previous scholars have dated the Golden Verses sometime in the Imperial period and they consequently either argue for direct dependence of the Golden Verses on the Stoic authors, or for a shared dependence on a hypothetical third text. If one examines the literary relationships between the various texts critically, while bracketing the chronological problem, it becomes evident that the far more traditional Pythagorean poem must have been used by the more sophisticated Stoic authors, instead of the author of the former having simplified his Stoic sources. This conclusion has important implications for the value of the Golden Verses within the Pythagorean tradition.
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dc.format.extent23 pages
dc.identifier.citationThom, J. C. 2001. Cleanthes, Chrysippus and the Pythagorean Golden Verses. Acta Classica, 44(1).
dc.identifier.issn2227-538X (online)
dc.identifier.issn0065-1141 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/74361
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherClassical Association of South Africa
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyright
dc.subject.otherCleanthesen_ZA
dc.titleCleanthes, Chrysippus and the Pythagorean Golden Versesen_ZA
dc.typeArticle
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