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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828614003321

Autore

Pomeroy Sarah B

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-4214-0957-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

182/.2082

Soggetti

Pythagoras and Pythagorean school

Women - Greece - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Who were the Pythagorean women? -- Wives, mothers, sisters, daughters -- Who were the neopythagorean women? -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.