/lit/ - Literature

>>14566572
I was mostly shitposting in that comment, I still really like Plato and Plotinus and they are worth reading, but they dont do justice to the original system of Pythagoras.

The "Pythagorean sourcebook and library" is probably the best collection of texts in English.
Pythagoras also apparently did claim to be a sort of Prophet sent by God, and taught the idea of the transcendent Monad (An early form of Monotheism), Reincarnation, and a load of other cool ideas.
He travelled around the middle east a bit and the biography of him includes a part about him travelling to Phonecia and meeting some of the Jewish Prophets there which was around 600-500BC. And then to Egypt and Babylonia where he learnt about Zoroastrianism and some other Esotericism

But yeah, most of Platos cool ideas come directly from Pythagoras

Why doesn't Pythagoras get more love?