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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Theano

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20003

Blurb:

(lived 6th century BC; texts late
4th–3rd centuries BC and later)

In antiquity Theano was thought to have been one of the early Pythagoreans (of the sixth century BC), and various texts were in circulation under her name. However, there is serious
doubt about the authenticity of the extant texts attributed to her.

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