![]() ![]() They include sayings, philosophical treatises, and letters attributed to Pythagorean women, and form a vital undercurrent of the Pythagorean tradition. Such testimonies first surface in fragments of Peripatetic writers, and continued to shape the reception of Pythagoreanism until the seventh century CE. Pythagorean Women Philosophers maps an entire web of textual tradition to offer something more complex: a rewriting of Greek philosophical history so as to include female intellectuals.0Bringing together little-known testimonies to women's contributions to Pythagorean thought, this book shows what modern readers may learn from them. ![]() ![]() Such testimonies are usually discussed as evidence for life in Pythagorean communities. Pseudonymous texts attributed to Theano, Pythagoras' disciple or wife, and other female Pythagoreans, have also come down to us. Greek sources, postdating Pythagoras by hundreds of years, suggest that women played an important part in his school. ![]()
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