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Holger Thesleff
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LOCATION: Helsinki, SF-00140, Finland

BIOGRAPHY

Emeritus Professor of Greek, University of Helsinki. Author of An Introduction to the Pythagorean Writings of the Hellenistic Period and others.

Primary Contributions (1)
The tetraktys (see text).
Pythagoreanism, philosophical school and religious brotherhood, believed to have been founded by Pythagoras of Samos, who settled in Croton in southern Italy about 525 bce. The character of the original Pythagoreanism is controversial, and the conglomeration of disparate features that it displayed…
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