Greeky-Peeky: Pythagorean Women

Iamblichus list seventeen of them, ‘the

most famous ones,” he says.

Love, wrote Theano, is the state of  “an unoccupied soul.”

It is better to ride a horse without reins than to be an unreflective woman.

With your husband, she advised, take off your modesty with your clothes.

“What clothes? Those that cause you to be a woman.”

See Sarah B. Pomeroy, Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), 6, 69.