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    From whom did Apuleius say in his 'Aureus Asinus' that Pythagoras obtained his philosophical and mathematical wisdom?

    Question #77915. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Mar 27 07 4:38 PM)


    BG07

    		Apuleius is to have said he recieved his philosophical and mathematical wisdom from the Babylonian disciples of Zoroaster.

    Mar 27 07, 5:38 PM
    tragic_flawed

    		Did he?

    Mar 27 07, 6:06 PM
    peasypod

    		Well, Apuleius' "Metamorphoses" AKA 'The Golden Ass' does state that Pythagoras learned number lore from the Egyptians.

    http://pages.britishlibrary.net/simon.mahony/ma-isis.html

    Mar 27 07, 6:40 PM
    tragic_flawed

    		hmm....it was actually the gymnosophists

    Mar 28 07, 6:42 PM
    peasypod

    		How so?

    Mar 28 07, 6:51 PM

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