Pythagorean women philosophers : between belief and suspicion /
"Modern scholarly accounts of Greek philosophical history usually exclude women. And yet, from Dixaearchus of Messana to Diogenes Laertius, classical writers record the names of women philosophers from various schools. What is more, pseudonymous treatises and letters (likely dating after the fi...
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| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
| Published: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. ©2020 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Pythagorean women philosophers : |b between belief and suspicion / |c Dorota M. Dutsch. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2020. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2020 | |
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| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on December 15, 2020). | ||
| 546 | |a Some text in Greek, with English translations. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: what is at stake? -- Prologue: a portrait of the master as a young woman -- Between utopia and history: ten snapshots from a Pythagorean family album -- Pictures from an exhibition: the making of a female sage -- Introduction: women and the living script -- Ladies of bygone times: women and the Pythagorean time machine -- Ipsa Dixit: letters of Pythagorean women -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: from Theano to Saint Macrina -- Note on text and translations -- Treatises -- Letters of advice -- Notes from Vaticanus Graecus 578 -- Theophylact Simocatta, Theano to Eurydice. | |
| 520 | |a "Modern scholarly accounts of Greek philosophical history usually exclude women. And yet, from Dixaearchus of Messana to Diogenes Laertius, classical writers record the names of women philosophers from various schools. What is more, pseudonymous treatises and letters (likely dating after the first century CE) articulate the teachings of Pythagorean women. How can this literature inform our understanding of Greek intellectual history? To take these texts at face value would be naïve; to reject them, narrow-minded. This book is a deep examination of the literary tradition surrounding female Pythagoreans; it envisions the tradition as a network of texts that does not represent female philosophers but enacts their role in Greek culture. Part I, "Portraits," assembles and contextualizes excerpts from historical accounts and wisdom literature. Part II, "Impersonations," analyzes pseudonymous treatises and letters. Texts are approached with a mixture of suspicion and belief, inspired by Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics. Suspicion serves to disclose the misogyny of the epistemic regimes that produced the texts about and by women philosophers. Belief takes us beyond the circumstances of the texts' production to possible worlds of diverse readers, institutions, and practices that grant agency to the female knower. In the process, the book uncovers traces of a fascinating dialogue about the gender of philosophical knowledge, which includes female voices"--Publisher's description. | ||
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