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Headword: Theanô
Adler number: theta,84
Translated headword: Theano
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Cretan woman, philosopher, daughter of Pythonax, but wife of the great Pythagoras,[1] from whom she had Telauges[2] and Mnesarkhos[3] and Muia[4] and Arignote.[5] But some write that she was wife of Bro[n]tinos and a Crotoniate in origin. [She wrote] Philosophical Commentaries and Sayings and a poem in epic meter.
Greek Original:
Theanô, Krêssa, philosophos, thugatêr men Puthônaktos, gametê de tou megalou Puthagorou, ex hou esche Têlaugên kai Mnêsarchon kai Muian kai Arignôtên. tines de Brôtinou tautên genesthai gunaika graphousi kai to genos Krotôniatin. Hupomnêmata philosopha, kai Apophthegmata, kai poiêma ti di' epôn.
Notes:
See already theta 83.
For the present entry cf. Diogenes Laertius 8.42-43 (Life of Pythagoras); Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras 4. Several names of Pythagorean women are mentioned, but works attributed to them are of doubtful authenticity: see web address 1 below (from Carl Huffman, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
[1] pi 3120, pi 3121, pi 3123, pi 3124.
[2] tau 481.
[3] (?)mu 1160.
[4] mu 1363.
[5] alpha 3872.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; geography; meter and music; philosophy; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 March 2002@11:42:44.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 20 March 2002@03:05:26.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 30 December 2012@07:27:02.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 28 August 2013@21:37:57.
Catharine Roth (modified link) on 4 January 2022@00:30:20.
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