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Orphism & Pythagoreanism
The Greek mystic underground
c.6th c. BCE – c.4th c. CE · Classical Mediterranean · Extinct · Greece, southern Italy, Sicily
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.570–495 BCE Pythagoras; the Croton community, which briefly governed the city and was then violently destroyed.
- c.5th c. BCE Earliest gold leaves.
- c.340 BCE Derveni Papyrus, carbonised on a funeral pyre and recovered in 1962.
- c.399–347 BCE Plato absorbs the immortal soul, its imprisonment in the body, transmigration and post-mortem judgment, and makes them respectable philosophy. This is the transmission route that matters.
- c.3rd c. CE Neoplatonism carries the package forward.
- c.4th–5th c. CE Christian theologians inherit the immortal soul from Plato rather than from the Hebrew Bible, where it is not to be found.
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