Leonid Zhmud
Biographic Data
| ID | 994035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonid Zhmud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonid |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhmud |
| SIGNATURE | ZHMUD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4873-6442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exact sciences and education in antiquity
Teaching of mathēmata in the framework of enkyklios paideia, the post-school education of a “free man”, was a new social practice that originated in the fourth century BC and greatly contributed to the growing public acceptance of science. Due to this educational practice that became common during the Hellenistic period many young men from wealthy families who took the course of enkyklios paideia, received instruction in the four mathēmata: geome…
Two ancient classifications of sciences
The paper examines the division of cognitive space in Antiquity as exemplified by the two most influential classifications of sciences, by Aristotle and Geminus, which underlie all subsequent classifications of scientific disciplines until the 18th century. Aristotle, considering the mathēmata in their comparison with the “first” and especially with the “second”, physical philosophy, proceeds from the independence of all three kinds of epistēmai …
Angela Ulacco
What is Pythagorean in the Pseudo-Pythagorean Literature?
This paper discusses continuity between ancient Pythagoreanism and the pseudo-Pythagorean writings, which began to appear after the end of the Pythagorean school ca. 350 BC. Relying on a combination of temporal, formal and substantial criteria, I divide Pseudopythagorica into three categories: 1) early Hellenistic writings (late fourth – late second centuries BC) ascribed to Pythagoras and his family members; 2) philosophical treatises written mo…
Ancient Greek Mathēmata from a Sociological Perspective
This essay examines the quantitative aspects of Greco-Roman science, represented by a group of established disciplines that since the fourth century b.c.e. had been called mathēmata or mathēmatikai epistēmai. Among the mathēmata, which in antiquity normally comprised mathematics, mathematical astronomy, harmonics, mechanics, and optics, the essay also includes geography. Using a data set based on The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, i…
Aristoxenus and the Pythagoreans
There are two main problems in the study of ancient Pythagoreanism, first, the elusive and contradictory figure of Pythagoras himself, and second, our sources. A now dominant two-stage model of the evolution of Pythagoreanism implies the transformation of a secret religious sect, founded by Pythagoras, into a scientific and philosophical school, of the Pythagorean "myth" into the Pythagorean "logos". In order to establish the historical links con…
Pseudo-Plutarch und Stobaios
Reviewed by: Pseudo-Plutarch und Stobaios: Eine synoptische Untersuchung by Heike Bottler Leonid Zhmud Heike Bottler. Pseudo-Plutarch und Stobaios: Eine synoptische Untersuchung. Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, 198. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. Pp. 552. €99.99. ISBN 978-3-525-25305-2. All studies of Greek doxography have the same starting point: an epoch-making 1879 edition, Doxographi Graeci (DG), by He…
Pythagoras’ Northern Connections
Apart from his teachings, wonders and scientific discoveries, Pythagoras was also known for his wide-ranging journeys. Ancient authors alleged that he visited many countries and nations from Egypt to India, stayed with the Phoenicians and the Ethiopians and talked to the Persian Magi and Gallic Druids. However, he never went to the North. If, nevertheless, he was eventually associated with the northern inhabitants, it is only because they themsel…
Sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century Pythagoreans
In the variety of the figures of the sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century Pythagoreans it is possible to perceive partly overlapping categories, but hardly any feature common to all of them. This chapter talks about a "family resemblance". This means that certain Pythagoreans had characteristics in common with some Pythagoreans, but not with others. Thus, Hippasus, Theodorus of Cyrene, Philolaus and Archytas shared an interest in mathematics; Democe…
A History of Pythagoreanism
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted …
Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans
In ancient tradition, Pythagoras (c.570–c.495 bc) emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. Arguably the most influential thinker among the Presocratics, he was thought to have possessed supernatural qualities. This combination of characteristics has led to his portrayal as a controversial and elusive figure. In contrast, his early Pythagorean followers, such as th…
Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity
Reviewed by: Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease Leonid Zhmud Philip J. van der Eijk. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 418. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-81800-1. This volume contains a collection of Philip van der Eijk’s eleven previously published articles on the interre…
Saving the phenomena« between Eudoxus and Eudemus
Pythagoras. Leben, Lehre, Nachwirkung
Theophrastus against the Presocratics and Plato
This study offers a new and stimulating interpretation of Theophrastus' De sensibus, a treatise unique in content and method, as it reports and criticizes the theories of sense perception of the Presocratics and Plato. Most of the material on the Presocratics is found nowhere else, which explains why many passages can be found scattered over the Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. As an antidote to this fragmented approach the Presocratics are here stud…
Revising Doxography
"Die Atomlehre Demokrits und Platons "Timaios
"Plato as "Architect of Science
The figure of the cordial host of the Academy, who invited the most gifted mathematicians and cultivated pure research, whose keen intellect was able if not to solve the particular problem then at least to show the method for its solution: this figure is quite familiar to students of Greek science. But was the Academy as such a center of scientific research, and did Plato really set for mathematicians and astronomers the problems they should stud…
Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im frühen Pythagoreismus
Pythagoras as a mathematician
All is number
"Plato as "Architect of Science
The figure of the cordial host of the Academy, who invited the most gifted mathematicians and cultivated pure research, whose keen intellect was able if not to solve the particular problem then at least to show the method for its solution: this figure is quite familiar to students of Greek science. But was the Academy as such a center of scientific research, and did Plato really set for mathematicians and astronomers the problems they should stud…
Ancient Greek Mathēmata from a Sociological Perspective
This essay examines the quantitative aspects of Greco-Roman science, represented by a group of established disciplines that since the fourth century b.c.e. had been called mathēmata or mathēmatikai epistēmai. Among the mathēmata, which in antiquity normally comprised mathematics, mathematical astronomy, harmonics, mechanics, and optics, the essay also includes geography. Using a data set based on The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, i…
Pythagoras’ Northern Connections
Apart from his teachings, wonders and scientific discoveries, Pythagoras was also known for his wide-ranging journeys. Ancient authors alleged that he visited many countries and nations from Egypt to India, stayed with the Phoenicians and the Ethiopians and talked to the Persian Magi and Gallic Druids. However, he never went to the North. If, nevertheless, he was eventually associated with the northern inhabitants, it is only because they themsel…
All is number
Pythagoras as a mathematician
All is number
Wissenschaft, Philosophie und Religion im frühen Pythagoreismus
"Plato as "Architect of Science
The figure of the cordial host of the Academy, who invited the most gifted mathematicians and cultivated pure research, whose keen intellect was able if not to solve the particular problem then at least to show the method for its solution: this figure is quite familiar to students of Greek science. But was the Academy as such a center of scientific research, and did Plato really set for mathematicians and astronomers the problems they should stud…
Revising Doxography
"Die Atomlehre Demokrits und Platons "Timaios
Pythagoras. Leben, Lehre, Nachwirkung
Theophrastus against the Presocratics and Plato
This study offers a new and stimulating interpretation of Theophrastus' De sensibus, a treatise unique in content and method, as it reports and criticizes the theories of sense perception of the Presocratics and Plato. Most of the material on the Presocratics is found nowhere else, which explains why many passages can be found scattered over the Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. As an antidote to this fragmented approach the Presocratics are here stud…
Saving the phenomena« between Eudoxus and Eudemus
Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity
Reviewed by: Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease Leonid Zhmud Philip J. van der Eijk. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 418. $95.00. ISBN 0-521-81800-1. This volume contains a collection of Philip van der Eijk’s eleven previously published articles on the interre…
Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans
In ancient tradition, Pythagoras (c.570–c.495 bc) emerges as a wise teacher, an outstanding mathematician, an influential politician, and as a religious and ethical reformer. Arguably the most influential thinker among the Presocratics, he was thought to have possessed supernatural qualities. This combination of characteristics has led to his portrayal as a controversial and elusive figure. In contrast, his early Pythagorean followers, such as th…
Sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century Pythagoreans
In the variety of the figures of the sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century Pythagoreans it is possible to perceive partly overlapping categories, but hardly any feature common to all of them. This chapter talks about a "family resemblance". This means that certain Pythagoreans had characteristics in common with some Pythagoreans, but not with others. Thus, Hippasus, Theodorus of Cyrene, Philolaus and Archytas shared an interest in mathematics; Democe…
A History of Pythagoreanism
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted …
Pythagoras’ Northern Connections
Apart from his teachings, wonders and scientific discoveries, Pythagoras was also known for his wide-ranging journeys. Ancient authors alleged that he visited many countries and nations from Egypt to India, stayed with the Phoenicians and the Ethiopians and talked to the Persian Magi and Gallic Druids. However, he never went to the North. If, nevertheless, he was eventually associated with the northern inhabitants, it is only because they themsel…
Aristoxenus and the Pythagoreans
There are two main problems in the study of ancient Pythagoreanism, first, the elusive and contradictory figure of Pythagoras himself, and second, our sources. A now dominant two-stage model of the evolution of Pythagoreanism implies the transformation of a secret religious sect, founded by Pythagoras, into a scientific and philosophical school, of the Pythagorean "myth" into the Pythagorean "logos". In order to establish the historical links con…
Pseudo-Plutarch und Stobaios
Reviewed by: Pseudo-Plutarch und Stobaios: Eine synoptische Untersuchung by Heike Bottler Leonid Zhmud Heike Bottler. Pseudo-Plutarch und Stobaios: Eine synoptische Untersuchung. Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, 198. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. Pp. 552. €99.99. ISBN 978-3-525-25305-2. All studies of Greek doxography have the same starting point: an epoch-making 1879 edition, Doxographi Graeci (DG), by He…
Ancient Greek Mathēmata from a Sociological Perspective
This essay examines the quantitative aspects of Greco-Roman science, represented by a group of established disciplines that since the fourth century b.c.e. had been called mathēmata or mathēmatikai epistēmai. Among the mathēmata, which in antiquity normally comprised mathematics, mathematical astronomy, harmonics, mechanics, and optics, the essay also includes geography. Using a data set based on The Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, i…
What is Pythagorean in the Pseudo-Pythagorean Literature?
This paper discusses continuity between ancient Pythagoreanism and the pseudo-Pythagorean writings, which began to appear after the end of the Pythagorean school ca. 350 BC. Relying on a combination of temporal, formal and substantial criteria, I divide Pseudopythagorica into three categories: 1) early Hellenistic writings (late fourth – late second centuries BC) ascribed to Pythagoras and his family members; 2) philosophical treatises written mo…
Angela Ulacco
Two ancient classifications of sciences
The paper examines the division of cognitive space in Antiquity as exemplified by the two most influential classifications of sciences, by Aristotle and Geminus, which underlie all subsequent classifications of scientific disciplines until the 18th century. Aristotle, considering the mathēmata in their comparison with the “first” and especially with the “second”, physical philosophy, proceeds from the independence of all three kinds of epistēmai …
Exact sciences and education in antiquity
Teaching of mathēmata in the framework of enkyklios paideia, the post-school education of a “free man”, was a new social practice that originated in the fourth century BC and greatly contributed to the growing public acceptance of science. Due to this educational practice that became common during the Hellenistic period many young men from wealthy families who took the course of enkyklios paideia, received instruction in the four mathēmata: geome…
Philosophy (17 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (15 works) · History (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Classics (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)