Phanes Press is a

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book publishing

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. Phanes Press was founded by David Fideler in 1985 to publish

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and other

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texts. One of its representative and more significant publications was ''The Pythagorean Sourcebook'' translated by

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issued in 1987. The company had published 52 titles by 2004, when it was purchased by

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