EQUALITY OF "PYTHAGOREAN WOMEN"

In Crotona, Pythagoras and wife Theano founded THE WORLD'S FIRST UNIVERSITY. It was COEDUCATIONAL!

K L. Guthrie, in his book, The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library, lists the names and birthplaces of 218 students of Pythagoras-L and Theano (more than we know about Socrates' students!), including 16 women students:

  1. Timycha. the wife of student Myllias the Crotonian;
  2. Philtis, daughter of Theophrius the Crotonian;
  3. Mya, wife of Milon the Crotonian;
  4. Byndacis, sister of Lucasian students Ocellus and Occillus;
  5. Chilonis, daughter of Chilon the Lacedaemonian;
  6. Cratesiclea, wife of Cleanor the Lacedaemonian;
  7. Claecmas, sister of Autocharidas the Lacedaemonian;
  8. Nisleadusa the Lacedaemonian;
  9. Theano, wife of student Brontinus of Metapontum;
  10. Lasthenia the Arcadian;
  11. Abrotelia, daughter of Abroteles the Tarentine;
  12. Pisirrhonde the Tarentine;
  13. Echecratia the Philasian;
  14. Tyrsenis the Sybarite;
  15. Bryo the Argive;
  16. Babelyma the Argive.
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