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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pomeroy, Sarah B.
Format: eBook
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.