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Correcting ēthos and Purifying the Body. Musical Therapy in Iamblichus’ De vita pythagorica
2015
The tradition relating to the Pythagoreans and music therapy is most widely attested in two Neoplatonic works, Porphyry’s The Life of Pythagoras, and Iamblichus’ On the Pythagorean Way of Life. Although the chronological distance from the early Pythagoreans makes their accounts controversial, they offer interesting evidence on the beneficial effects of music. Iamblichus, whose work will be focused on in this paper, describes the effects of music on health through the notion of catharsis, which he often links with musical ēthos. The latter is not in fact attested before Plato, but Iamblichus, presenting Pythagoras in Platonic terms, emphasizes the importance he gives to the improvement of th…
Pitagora e le Muse. Per una lettura di Timeo, F 131 FGrHist.
2014
Le testimonianze letterarie riguardanti la presenza delle comunità di Pitagorici in Magna Grecia, insieme con la documentazione archeologica relativa ai culti locali, mostrano il rilievo assunto in tale contesto dai misteri dionisiaci e la loro connessione con l’ambito funerario. Tale aspetto coinvolge in misura preponderante la musica, che sembra offrire, nella simbologia della harmonia e nel legame con le Muse, una importante chiave interpretativa dell’escatologia di stampo orfico-dionisiaco.
On the Fractal Structure of Evolutionary Trees
2002
We analyse in terms of a fractal tree the time sequences of major evolutionary leaps at various scales: from the scale of the “global” tree of life (appearance of life to homeothermy), to the distinct scales of organization of clades, such as sauropod and theropod dinosaurs, North American equids, rodents, primates including hominids, and echinoderms. We also apply this type of model to the acceleration observed in the economic crisis/no-crisis pattern in Western and pre-Columbian civilizations. In each case we find that these data are consistent with a log-periodic law of acceleration or deceleration, to a high level of statistical significance. Such a law is characterized by a critical ep…
La morte di Pitagora e i culti delle Muse e di Demetra. Mousiké ed escatologia nelle comunità pitagoriche di Magna Grecia
2014
L’articolo propone un’analisi delle testimonianze relative alla connessione tra la morte di Pitagora e i culti delle Muse e di Demetra (la cui fonte sembra essere Timeo, FGrHist 566 F 131) alla luce della simbologia escatologica della musica e dei riti misterici, e del ruolo della memoria in ambito pitagorico. Tali testimonianze sembrano presupporre concezioni relative ai Misteri e alla katabasis, ambiti familiari non solo al culto di Demetra, ma anche a quello delle Muse, e rinviano al ruolo delle donne nei sodalizi Pitagorici. Alla luce delle rivolte antipitagoriche di metà V sec. a.C., inoltre, il culto di Demetra appare funzionale alla difesa e al consolidamento del ruolo politico dei P…
The Pythagoreans and the Therapeutic Effects of the Paean between Religion, Paideia and Politics
2016
The interest of the Early Pythagoreans in musical speculation appears in literary sources as strictly linked with religion and education. The use of paeans for healing and calming both rage and anger among the Pythagoreans (see for instance Iamblichus, De vita pythagorica 110; Porphyrius, Vita Pythagorae 30) shows that catharsis was meant within such groups as a “purification” from every kind of excess in which religion, medicine and ethics were blended together in order to provide a harmonious order within the individuals. Music and musical education in Pythagorean communities had also a “political” role, since they were intended to foster social order.
Pelastus ajassa : dionyysisten ja apollonisten pelastuskäsitysten tarkastelua Mircea Eliaden historianfilosofian kautta sekä niiden yhteyksistä eräis…
1997
El teorema de Pitàgores en segon d’ESO
2012
El teorema de Pitàgores és un contingut fonamental en l’assignatura de matemàtiques en el currículum d’Educació Secundària. Per tal de conèixer els continguts concrets que pertoquen a este curs, analitzem el que s’establix per Reial Decret al currículum oficial de l’Estat i al de la Comunitat Valenciana. Tindrem també en compte els continguts dels cursos anteriors i posteriors per tal d’evitar repeticions o insuficiències en la matèria. En el primer curs d’ESO s’estudia la fórmula i s’utilitza per a calcular el valor d’un costat d’un triangle rectangle coneguts els altres dos. En segon es demostra esta fórmula i s’utilitza per a determinar l’àrea de polígons; determinar si un triangle és re…
Yksi vai useampi intonaatio : intonaation opettamisen metodologiaa musiikin historiallisiin tyylikausiin liittyvien virityskäytäntöjen mukaisesti säv…
2001
Pytagoras si setning på 10. trinn : ei analyse av tre lærebøkers framstilling og ein elevs bruk av ei av lærebøkene
2016
Masteroppgave matematikkdidaktikk – Universitetet i Agder 2016 This text answers two research questions. The first research question is about how three different textbooks for grade 10 presents the Pythagorean theorem through different representations. These representations are geometric, algebraic and textual. The textbooks are Tetra, Faktor and Maximum. The precision of individual representations and the precision between representations is studied. The chronology in the presentation of the representations has also been studied. The conclusion is that the textbooks have different presentations of the Pythagorean theorem. A geometric representation is presented first in all three textbooks…