![]() 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 centuråE. ![]() 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.Bringing 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 asevidence 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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