Re: [tuning] Re: Pythagoras myth

In a message dated 8/31/00 10:18:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
UPB_MONIODIS@ONLINE.EMICH.EDU writes:

>
> --- In tuning@egroups.com, Afmmjr@a... wrote:
> > Practically everything about Pythagorus is a myth.
>
> Which is different than saying Pythaagoras is a myth. And it's
> different than saying there was not a Pythagorean school, or
> Pythagorean thought.
>
> The gentleman did not
> > write anything down
>
> Neither did Christ. So?

At least Christ had witnesses (supposedly) who could report firsthand. Items
attributed to Pythagoras came centuries later.

> > and was construed toward whatever political reason was
> > thought necessary.
>
> I think you mean philosophical rather than political. But then
> again, the two were so closely tied in the ancient mind.

There were more overtly political decisions made in Rome before the
Ostrogoths, and after, to attribute Pythagoras a number of unrelated things.
Most of what is truly attributable to Pythagoras the man was achieved from
his knowledge of the philosophy of his time, in Ionian Greek circles.

> >If we use the name of Pythagoras it is because this is
> > the name used for an unusual length of time.
>
> It called: origin.

I'm not sure what you mean here. There was much before Pythagoras that was
not original. Certainly not Pythagorean tuning.

Johnny Reinhard