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Sarah B. Pomeroy Pythagorean women
their history and writings
This book discusses the 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. This book provides English translations of all the earliest extant examples of literary...
Engels | 172 pagina's | The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore | 2013
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