Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings

by Sarah B. Pomeroy

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421409569
• ISBN13: 9781421409566
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"