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The influence of Philo on the early Christians, the socalled 'church fathers' was great. One article on his influence upon the thought of Clement is written by Eugene Afonasin, Novosibirsk State University, and published as
o( Klh/mhj puqagori/zei: Pythagorean Symbolism and the Philosophic Paideia in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria.
You can read it at the Paideia website. Part of its conclusion runs like this:
Importance of the Pythagorean tradition for Clement of Alexandria's philosophic development has recently been stressed by several researchers of Medioplatonic and early Christian doctrine. But as it was justly noticed some time ago by M. Tardieu, Pythagoreanism of Clement, both in his theoretical and moral philosophy, is still a terra incognita. (56) Thorough examination of Clement's use of Philo of Alexandria, recently undertaken by Annewies van den Hoek (57) and David Runia (58) are particularly illuminating for the purpose of analysis of the Neopythagorean and Medioplatonic elements in Clement's writings.

The questions I put in the present paper were (1) what at all did Clement know about the Pythagoreans and (2) how and to which extend did he make use of them in his own philosophic contemplation and theological speculations? Both of this question are difficult to answer due to (1) paucity of evidence about the intellectual climate of Clement's time and (2) controversial and pioneering nature of Clement thought. And while the former cannot be helped, the latter is in our hand, as long as we are able to perceive clouds of Clement's thought revealed in his own words. An analysis of the Pythagorean elements in Clement, combined with ad hoc observations of textual parallelism, found in Clement and Neopythagorean writings, constituted the goal, in which the present study was intended to aim. Now, in the present stage of research I do not claim to have the questions, complicated as they are, answered in full details. But still the pages of Clement's thought already unfolded, have given us certain hints and led us to some results to be summarized as following.
Ooops, I see that the Greek does not show up too well. Those of you who knows Greek, will probably understand it, the font used is SGreek.