Pythagorean women : their history and writings / Sarah B. Pomeroy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomeroy, Sarah B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.

Women--Greece--Intellectual life.

Women.

Intellectual life.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xxii, 172 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421409566

1421409569

OCLC:

810442608