| Foreword | p. 11 |
| Preface | p. 15 |
| Introduction | p. 21 |
| The Life of Pythagoras | |
| The Country, Parents, and Time of Pythagoras | p. 41 |
| His First Education and Masters | p. 45 |
| How He Traveled to Phoenicia | p. 48 |
| How He Traveled to Egypt | p. 49 |
| How He Went to Babylon | p. 52 |
| How He Returned to Samos | p. 55 |
| Travels to Delos, Delphi, Crete, and Sparta | p. 57 |
| How He Went to Olympia and Phlius | p. 59 |
| How He Lived at Samos | p. 61 |
| His Voyage to Italy | p. 62 |
| His Arrival at Crotona | p. 67 |
| His Oration to the Young Men | p. 69 |
| His Oration to the Senators | p. 72 |
| His Oration to the Boys | p. 75 |
| His Oration to the Women | p. 76 |
| His Institution of a Sect in Private and Public | p. 78 |
| His Authority in Civil Affairs | p. 80 |
| Wonders Related of Him | p. 86 |
| His Death | p. 90 |
| His Person and Virtues | p. 98 |
| His Wife, Children, and Servants | p. 100 |
| His Writings | p. 103 |
| His Disciples | p. 109 |
| The Succession of His School | p. 112 |
| Disciplines and Doctrines of The Pythagoreans | |
| The Great Authority and Esteem of Pythagoras | p. 117 |
| The Two Sorts of Auditors | p. 119 |
| Purificative Institution by Sufferings | p. 121 |
| Silence | p. 122 |
| Abstinence, Temperance, and Other Ways of Purification | p. 124 |
| Community of Estates | p. 125 |
| Admission or Rejection | p. 126 |
| Distinction | p. 127 |
| How They Disposed the Day | p. 130 |
| How They Examined Their Actions | p. 132 |
| Secrecy | p. 134 |
| The Doctrine of Pythagoras | |
| Mathematical Sciences | |
| The Mathematical Sciences Preparative to Philosophy | p. 139 |
| Arithmetic | p. 142 |
| Number Its Kinds: Intellectual | p. 143 |
| The Other Kind of Number: Sciential | p. 144 |
| The Two Kinds of Sciential Number | p. 145 |
| Symbolic Numbers | p. 146 |
| The Monad | p. 149 |
| The Duad | p. 151 |
| The Triad | p. 153 |
| The Tetrad | p. 155 |
| The Pentad | p. 159 |
| The Hexad | p. 161 |
| The Heptad | p. 163 |
| The Ogdoad | p. 165 |
| The Ennead | p. 166 |
| The Decad | p. 167 |
| Divination by Numbers | p. 169 |
| Music | p. 171 |
| Voice, Its Kinds | p. 172 |
| First Music in the Planets | p. 174 |
| The Octochord | p. 176 |
| The Arithmetical Proportions of Harmony | p. 177 |
| The Division of the Diapason | p. 180 |
| The Cannon of the Monochord | p. 181 |
| Institution by Music | p. 182 |
| Medicine by Music | p. 184 |
| Geometry | p. 187 |
| Of a Point, Line, Superficies and Solid | p. 188 |
| Propositions | p. 191 |
| How He Determined the Stature of Hercules | p. 194 |
| Astronomy | p. 195 |
| The System of the Spheres | p. 196 |
| The Motions of the Planets | p. 200 |
| The Intervals and Harmony of the Spheres | p. 202 |
| Of the Planet Venus | p. 204 |
| Philosophy | |
| Philosophy: Its Name, Definition, Parts, Method | p. 205 |
| Practical Philosophy: Its Parts; and First of Edication | p. 208 |
| Institution, Silence, Abstinence | p. 209 |
| Fortitude | p. 213 |
| Temperance and Continence 213 | |
| Sagacity and Wisdom | p. 218 |
| Of Politics: The Other Part of Practical Philosophy | p. 219 |
| Common Conversation | p. 220 |
| Friendship | p. 222 |
| Worship of the Gods | p. 224 |
| Piety to the Dead | p. 227 |
| Reverence of Parents, and Obedience to the Law | p. 229 |
| Lawmaking | p. 230 |
| Theoretical Philosophy: Its Parts | p. 231 |
| Of the Supreme God | p. 233 |
| Of Gods, Daemons, Heroes | p. 233 |
| Of Fate and Fortune | p. 234 |
| Divination | p. 235 |
| Physic | p. 237 |
| Principles | p. 238 |
| Of the World | p. 244 |
| Of the Superior or Aetherial Parts of the-World | p. 246 |
| Of the Sublunary Parts of the World | p. 248 |
| Of Living, and Animate Creatures | p. 249 |
| Of the Generation of Animate Creatures | p. 250 |
| The Soul: Its Parts, and First of the Irrational Part | p. 253 |
| Of the Rational Part of the Soul: The Mind | p. 254 |
| Of the Transmigration of the Soul | p. 256 |
| The Separate Life of the Soul | p. 260 |
| Medicine | p. 261 |
| Dietetics | p. 263 |
| Therapeutic | p. 265 |
| Symbols | |
| Pythagoras: His Symbolic Way of Teaching | p. 267 |
| The Symbols of Pythagoras According to lamblichus | p. 269 |
| Explication of the Pythagorean Symbols by lamblichus | p. 273 |
| The Same Symbols Explained by Others | p. 285 |
| Other Symbols | p. 291 |
| The Golden Verses of Pythagoras | p. 295 |
| Pythagorean Commentators | |
| Of the Soul of the World by Timaeus the Locrian | p. 301 |
| The Doctrine of Pythagoras | p. 312 |
| Of Pythagoras: His Way of Teaching | p. 312 |
| The Triple Word | p. 314 |
| The Supreme World | p. 316 |
| The Intelligible World | p. 321 |
| The Sensible World | p. 324 |
| The State of the Soul after Death | p. 327 |
| Of the Pythagorean Transmigration | p. 329 |
| Glossary | p. 333 |
| Endnotes | p. 337 |
| Additional Notes to the Text | p. 367 |
| Bibliography | p. 399 |
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