Pythagorean women : a social history / Sarah B. Pomeroy.
The author discusses the groundbreaking principles that Pythagoras established for family life in Archaic Greece, such as constituting a single standard of sexual conduct for women and men. Among the Pythagoreans, women played an important role and participated actively in the philosophical life. Wh...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013] |
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Table of Contents:
- Who were the Pythagorean women?
- Wives, mothers, sisters, daughters
- Who were the neopythagorean women authors?
- Introduction to the prose writings of neopythagorean women
- The letters and treatises of neopythagorean women in the east
- The letters and treatises of neopythagorean women in the west
- The neopythagorean women as philosophers / by Vicki Lynn Harper.