Neopythagoreanism

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Apollonius of Tyana ( c. 15?–c. 100? AD), one of the most important representatives of Neopythagoreanism

Neopythagoreanism (or neo-Pythagoreanism) was a school of

unio mystica with the divine.[1]

The word Neopythagoreanism is a modern (19th century) term,[2] coined as a parallel of "Neoplatonism".

History

In the 1st century BC

Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl. 150 AD), who wrote about the mystical properties of numbers. In the 2nd century, Numenius of Apamea sought to fuse additional elements of Platonism into Neopythagoreanism, prefiguring the rise of Neoplatonism. (Iamblichus
, in particular, was especially influenced by Neopythagoreanism.)

Neopythagoreanism was an attempt to re-introduce a

Ideas with Pythagorean number theory, and identified the good with the monad (which would give rise to the Neoplatonic concept of "the One
"), the source of the duality of the infinite and the measured with the resultant scale of realities from the one down to the objects of the material world.

They emphasized the fundamental distinction between the

spirit
.

The Porta Maggiore Basilica, where Neopythagoreans held their meetings in the 1st century, is believed to have been constructed by the Statilia gens.[3] It was discovered in 1915 near Porta Maggiore on Via Praenestina in Rome.[4][5][6]

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