Ocellus Lucanus is a figure to whom an ancient Pythagorean treatise, 'On the Nature of the Universe' (Peri tou pantos), is attributed. The work is widely regarded by scholars as pseudepigraphical, likely composed in the 2nd or 1st century BCE under the name of a legendary Pythagorean from Lucania in southern Italy. The text argues for the eternity of the cosmos and the perpetual generation of living beings, situating it within late Pythagorean and early Platonist cosmological speculation.
Attributed author of 'On the Nature of the Universe,' a Pythagorean cosmological treatise
Advanced an argument for the eternity of the world against cosmogonic creation accounts
Provided an early systematic account of cosmic order grounded in Pythagorean numerical principles
Influenced later Neoplatonist and Neopythagorean interpretations of cosmology