Brontinus
Brontinus of Metapontum (Greek: Βροντῖνος, also Brotinus, Βροτῖνος; fl. 6th century BCE), Magna Graecia, was a Pythagorean philosopher and a friend and disciple of Pythagoras. Alcmaeon dedicated his works to Brontinus as well as to Leon and Bathyllus.[1] Accounts vary as to whether he was the father or the husband of Theano.[2]
Some Orphic poems were ascribed to Brontinus. One was a poem On Nature (Physika),[3] another was a poem called The Robe and the Net[3] that was also ascribed to Zopyrus of Heraclea.[4]
His fame was sufficient for a spurious work to be ascribed to him in the
first cause, "transcends all kinds of reason and essence in power and dignity,"[6] whereby an attempt was made to insert an element of Platonism into Pythagoreanism,[7] which probably refers to Neoplatonism
.
See also
- Hippasus of Metapontum
References
- Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 83
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 42; Suda, Theanô; Iamblichus, Vit. Pyth. § 267.
- ^ a b Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, i. 131; Suda, Orpheus
- ^ Kathleen Freeman, (1959), The pre-Socratic philosophers: a companion to Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, page 6.
- ^ Syrianus, In Metaph. 166
- ^ Philip Merlan, (1963) Monopsychism mysticism metaconsciousness: Problems of the soul in the neoaristotelian and neoplatonic tradition, page 8. Nijhoff
- ISBN 0-7876-5155-9
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