A community-maintained tertiary reference on the Golden Verses, directly examined. Its strength is being honest about the uncertain dating and authorship rather than asserting a false precision, while still naming a specific Neoplatonist commentator who used them; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a Pythagorean studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three.
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Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesWikipedia's article on the Golden Verses, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for their seventy one lines of dactylic hexameter in Ancient Greek, traditionally attributed to the Pythagorean philosophers though their actual authorship and exact date of composition are unknown, possibly known as early as the third century BCE but not confirmed prior to the fifth century CE; and the extant Neoplatonist commentaries on them, most notably by Hierocles of Alexandria, used as part of the Neoplatonists' own preparatory program of moral instruction.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Verses
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Prayers, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 general references.
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