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				Porphyry Life of Pythagoras [3rd c.] Porphyry, "Life of Pythagoras by Porphyry," in The Life of Pythagoras, Vol 1 of The Complete Pythagoras, translated by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (1920; Online at CompletePythagoras.net). Eudoxus, in the second book of his Description of the Earth, writes that Pythagoras used the greatest Purity, and was shocked at all bloodshed and killing; that he not only abstained from animal food, but never in any way approached butchers or hunters. [Pythagoras] taught that the soul was immortal and that after death it transmigrated into other animated bodies. After certain specified periods, the same events occur again; that nothing was entirely new; that all animated beings were kin, and should be considered as belonging to one great family.
	Animal Rights History Timeline: Antiquity [BCE-c485] Antiquity: Mythical-Divine Origin; Remote-Classical Antiquity [BCE] Classical Antiquity Common Era; Early Church Fathers [CE-c485] [ca245-ca305] Porphyry [3rd c.] Abstinence from Animal Food —Book 1 Abstinence-Animal Food —Book 2 Abstinence-Animal Food —Book 3 Abstinence-Animal Food —Book 4 Abstinence-Animal Food —Euripides, Prophets of Crete [3rd c.] On the Life of Plotinus [3rd c.] Life of Pythagoras						Animal Rights History Timeline: Antiquity [BCE-c485] Antiquity: Mythical-Divine Origin; Remote-Classical Antiquity [BCE] Classical Antiquity Common Era; Early Church Fathers [CE-c485] [—Activists-Advocates-Authors] [—Ancient Animal Protection Law] [Abstinence from Animal Food] [Animal Rights Quotes] [Animal Rights Law] [Anti-Vivisection Quotes] [Humane Education, Teaching Children Kindness to Animals] [Hunting, Blood-Sports Cruelty] [Poetry-Plays; Humane Poets] [Religion-Religious Quotes Sermons Against Animal Cruelty] [Souls, Immortality, Future Life] [Humanity-Justice-Kindness] [Intelligence-Reason-Emotion] [Make Compassion the Fashion; Beauty-Feathers-Fur-Leather] [Cruelty-Slavery of Animals] [Strait from the Horse's Mouth: Words from Animals Themselves] [Vegetarians-Vegans; Cruelty of Slaughter, Abstinence-Animals] A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z [BCE-c485] Antiquity [c485-1450] Medieval Ages [1450-1660] Renaissance [1660-1785] Englightenment [1785-1837] Romantic Age [1837-1901] Victorian Age [1901-1945 20thC-Modernism




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