Städtische Philosophenkulte in der griechischen Welt zwischen Archaik und Hellenismus – Fakten und Fiktionen

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide a systematical analysis of civic cults for philosophers in the Greek world as attested in literary and epigraphic sources for philosophers in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic times. It examines six philosophers and persons who were connected with philosophy: Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Athenodorus of Tarsus, Iollas of Sardis, and Pythagoras. The main focus is on questions of the historicity of the cults as well as on their argumentative setting in the context of biographical accounts of the respective persons.

Keywords

• philosophers
• cults (civic)
• biographic tradition
• Aristotle
• Pythagoras