Il continuum fisiologico σῶμα-ψυχή. Relazione tra livelli di purezza cultuale, attitudine cognitiva e ruolo socio-politico nelle prescrizioni dietetiche di Pitagora e del pitagorismo.

The dietary prescriptions and restrictions attributed to Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism more broadly have long sparked interest and curiosity in the fields of philosophy and the history of religion. M. Detienne addressed the issue with his characteristic intellectual acuity in an article entitled La cuisine de Pythagore, published in 1970 in the journal Archives de sociologie des religions. While acknowledging that the topic had already been extensively explored, Detienne outlines the two principal traditions associated with the so-called Pythagorean regimen. Rather than attempting to reconcile them within a framework of coherence—an approach more reflective of modern reductionist tendencies than of ancient Greek thought (as J.-P. Vernant has shown)—he gradually expands the scope of inquiry from the historical context of Croton to the broader and more anthropologically complex domain of sacrificial practice. This paper seeks to build upon the interpretive framework proposed by Detienne in order to explore, from a historical-medical perspective, the nutraceutical implications of the Pythagorean regimen. It also aims to investigate the potential relationships between physiology, forms of knowledge, and the socio-political role of an anthropological model in which the continuity between σῶμα and ψυχή emerges with striking clarity.