| Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings Contributor(s): Pomeroy, Sarah B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1421409569 ISBN-13: 9781421409566 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - History | Ancient - Greece - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 182.208 |
| LCCN: 2012036896 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.92 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 to men, his reasoning was based on the desire to preserve harmony in the home. Pythagorean Women provides English translations of all the earliest extant examples of literary Greek prose by Neopythagorean women, shedding light on their attitudes about marriage, the home, music, and the cosmos. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Pomeroy, Sarah B.: - Sarah B. Pomeroy is Distinguished Professor of Classics and History Emerita at Hunter College and the Graduate School at the City University of New York. Her book Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity is widely recognized as the definitive book on the topic. |