I think it's more about steganography than about poetry.
The presence of mathematical patterns is very plausible, and their Puthagorean origin is probable (the musical scale he allegedly used is of Pythagorean origin, and he has been hanging out with some of them.
Puthagoreans were to my knowledge the first initiatic society in occident. They were very secretive and relied on oral transmission for most of their teachings. Rational numbers and the law of harmony had a metaphysical/mystic meaning to them. IIRC, the poor dude who first proved that sqrt(2) is irrational was thrown at sea with a boulder tied to its ankles.
Regarding the presence of the "mean" word at ~61.8% of multiple texts, if the same word is used at that very spot and only there in several texts it has probably been placed there intentionaly, possibly to tie its meaning to Pythagorean symbolism/mysticism.
He might also have been enjoying the activity of concealing math references for its own sake. Being highly intellectual, he might actually have been of the geeky type :-). Since the Greeks didn't have any jargon for discussing about math, they just overloaded other common words to communicate mathematical ideas; it would be Quite amusing to discover that he sprikled its work with math puns :-).
This is of course highly speculative, but it's so fun to play this kind of detective games.
The presence of mathematical patterns is very plausible, and their Puthagorean origin is probable (the musical scale he allegedly used is of Pythagorean origin, and he has been hanging out with some of them.
Puthagoreans were to my knowledge the first initiatic society in occident. They were very secretive and relied on oral transmission for most of their teachings. Rational numbers and the law of harmony had a metaphysical/mystic meaning to them. IIRC, the poor dude who first proved that sqrt(2) is irrational was thrown at sea with a boulder tied to its ankles.
Regarding the presence of the "mean" word at ~61.8% of multiple texts, if the same word is used at that very spot and only there in several texts it has probably been placed there intentionaly, possibly to tie its meaning to Pythagorean symbolism/mysticism.
He might also have been enjoying the activity of concealing math references for its own sake. Being highly intellectual, he might actually have been of the geeky type :-). Since the Greeks didn't have any jargon for discussing about math, they just overloaded other common words to communicate mathematical ideas; it would be Quite amusing to discover that he sprikled its work with math puns :-).
This is of course highly speculative, but it's so fun to play this kind of detective games.