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John Hopkins University Press, 2013. Illustrated. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with maroon mulberry paper on boards with gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (6 x 0.75 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos, maps and illustrations. Includes notes and an index. 200 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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 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…
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Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings Hardcover - 2013
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- Title Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings
- Author Sarah B. Pomeroy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781421409566 / 1421409569
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Pythagoras and Pythagorean school, Women - Greece - Intellectual life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012036896
- Dewey Decimal Code 182.208
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