Aethalides
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Vitae philosophorum
First incarnation of the soul that later became Pythagoras, son of Hermes.
Now Euphorbus used to say that he had once been Aethalides and obtained this gift from Hermes, and then he told of the wanderings of his soul, how it migrated hither and thither, into how many plants and animals it had come, and all that it underwent in Hades, and all that the other souls there have to endure.
When Hermotimus died, he became Pyrrhus, a fisherman of Delos, and again he remembered everything, how he was first Aethalides, then Euphorbus, then Hermotimus, and then Pyrrhus.
De Anima
One of the past lives Pythagoras claimed, whose bean-eating contradicts Pythagoras's prohibition.
How will he persuade me that he was Aethalides and Euphorbus and Pyrrhus the fisherman and Hermotimus, before Pythagoras, in order to persuade me that the living are made out of the dead — he who again perjured himself to be Pythagoras?
Aethalides, moreover, and Hermotimus had even thrust the bean into the common foods;