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- Diels, H. and W. Kranz, 1952, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (in three volumes), 6th edition, Dublin and Zürich: Weidmann. The Archytas material is in Volume 1, Chapter 47, pp. 421–439 (Greek texts of the fragments and testimonia with translations in German). Referred to as DK. (Scholar)
- Huffman, C. A., 2005, Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The most complete and up-to-date collection of fragments and testimonia with translations and commentary in English). (Scholar)
- Timpanaro Cardini, M., 1958–64, Pitagorici,
Testimonianze e frammenti, 3 vols., Firenze: La Nuova Italia,
Vol. 2, 262–385 (Greek texts of the fragments and testimonia
with translations and commentary in Italian). (Scholar)
General Bibliography
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good account of Archytas’ harmonic theory.) (Scholar)
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in Huffman (ed.), 2014: 185–203. (Scholar)
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- Blass, F., 1884, ‘De Archytae Tarentini fragmentis
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- Bowen, A. C., 1982, ‘The foundations of early Pythagorean
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