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SEP: Pythagoras |
 | | By the first centuries BC, moreover, it became fashionable to present Pythagoras in a largely unhistorical fashion as a semi-divine figure, who originated all that was true in the Greek philosophical tradition, including many of Plato's and Aristotle's mature ideas. |
| | By the third century AD, when the first detailed accounts of Pythagoras that survive intact were written, Pythagoras had come to be regarded, in some circles, as the master philosopher, from whom all that was true in the Greek philosophical tradition derived. |
| | By the end of the first century BC, a large collection of books had been forged in the name of Pythagoras and other early Pythagoreans, which purported to be the orignal Pythagorean texts from which Plato and Aristotle derived their most important ideas. |
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