Pythagorean women /
The Pythagorean women are a group of female philosophers who were followers of Pythagoras and are credited with authoring a series of letters and treatises. In both stages of the history of Pythagoreanism, namely, the 5th-century Pythagorean societies and the Hellenistic Pythagorean writings, the P...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements on women in the history of philosophy
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: the Pythagorean female sage
- 2. Early Pythagoreanism: not only for men, but also for women
- 3. Late Pythagoreanism: writers, pseudepigraphers, and philosophers
- 4. Final remarks: gendered knowledge and genderless wisdom.