Pythagorean Women
eBook - ePub

Pythagorean Women

Their History and Writings

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pythagorean Women

Their History and Writings

About this book

Love triangles and Pythagorean women.

In Pythagorean Women, classical scholar Sarah B. Pomeroy 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. While Pythagoras encouraged women to be submissive to men, his reasoning was based on the desire to preserve harmony in the home.

Pythagorean Women provides English translations of all the earliest extant examples of literary Greek prose by Neopythagorean women, shedding light on their attitudes about marriage, the home, music, and the cosmos. Pomeroy sets the Pythagorean and Neopythagorean women vividly in their historical, ecological, and intellectual contexts, illustrated with original photographs of sites and artifacts known to these women.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Note on Abbreviations
  8. Chronology
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Who Were the Pythagorean Women?
  11. 2 Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Daughters
  12. 3 Who Were the Neopythagorean Women Authors?
  13. 4 Introduction to the Prose Writings of Neopythagorean Women
  14. 5 The Letters and Treatises of Neopythagorean Women in the East
  15. 6 The Letters and Treatises of Neopythagorean Women in the West
  16. 7 The Neopythagorean Women as Philosophers
  17. Notes
  18. Index
  19. Footnote