From the Beginning to Plato

55 It is not safe, though, to read back the mind-body dualism of Plato’s middle period
into Pythagoras.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans
Texts
No authentic writings survive. Collections of early Pythagorean akousmata and sumbola,
and other later testimony about Pythagoras and the early Pythagoreans, are in DK [2.
2]: I, 446–80. On the surviving fragments of ‘Orphic’ writings, see West [4.5].
General studies
4.1 Burkert [2–25].
4.2 Kahn, C.H. ‘Pythagorean philosophy before Plato’, in Mourelatos [2.19]: 161–85.
‘Orphism’ and sixth- and fifth-century religion
4.3 Burkert [1.43],290-304.
4.4 Dodds [2.28], ch. 5.
4.5 West, M.L. The Orphic Poems, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1983.
4.6 Parker, R. ‘Early Orphism’, in A.Powell (see [2.36]): 483–510.
Early Greek mathematics and science
4.7 Lloyd [1.7]. See also [2.27], [2.34], [2.38], [2.41].
Parmenides
Texts with translation and commentary
FROM THE BEGINNING TO PLATO 155
4.8 Coxon, A.H. The Fragments of Parmenides, Assen/Maastricht, Van Gorcum, 1986.
4.9 Gallop, D. Parmenides of Elea, Phoenix suppl. vol. 18, Toronto/Buffalo/ London,
University of Toronto Press, 1984.
4.10 Heitsch, E.Parmenides: Die Fragmente, 2nd edn, Munich/Zürich, Artemis Verlag,
1991.
4.11 Hölscher, U.Parmenides: Vom Wesen des Seienden, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp Verlag,
1969.