Pythagorean Women : Their History and Writings /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pomeroy, Sarah B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Intellectual life.
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Femmes > Grece > Vie intellectuelle.
Pythagorisme.
Women > Greece > Intellectual life.
Greece.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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