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Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter 22 2017 Stichting Pythagoras Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter. No. 22. February 2017. Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter. No. 22, February 2017 Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter No. 22 February 2017. Website http://www.stichting-pythagoras.nl/ E-mailaddress [email protected] Editors Nico Bader, Marie-Anne de Roode This annual Newsletter gives articles and a summary of literature of recent publications concerning Pythagoras and Pythagoreans. Interesting internetsites, work in progress and conferences are included. Last but not least a special guest! “Pythagoras some time afterwards came up withered and looking like a skeleton, then went into the assembly and declared he had been down to Hades, and even read out his experiences to them. They were so affected that they wept and wailed and looked upon him as divine, going so far as to send their wives to him in hopes that they would learn some of his doctrines; and so they were called Pythagorean women. Thus far Hermippus.” Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers. R.D. Hicks, Ed. Book VIII, [41] Contents: Introduction, news from the library p 2 Acknowledgements. Picture Pythagorean women. Colophon p 3 News from the library p 4 Sarah B. Pomeroy, interview + CV p 5 Pythagorean women in the DATABASES p 8 Hypatia in the DATABASES p 10 HYPATIA Source hypatia quotes? [[email protected]] p 12 Museum of Pythagoras p 13 Basilica Pitagorica di Porta Maggiore p 14 Conferences p 15 New books p 28 Book reviews p 34 Book chapters p 35 Journal articles p 47 Internet p 69 Hypatia p 72 1 Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter. No. 22, February 2017 Introduction Our website attracted many visitors last year; 1024 unique visitors from 48 different countries! Via our Academia page https://stichting-pythagoras.academia.edu/NicoBader we have 97 ‘followers’ and 207 ‘followings’ now. Our page was viewed 972 times. Special attention in this Newsletter for women who called themselves or were called Pythagoreans. Sarah B. Pomeroy wrote a book about them. She was so kind to give us a short interview and to send us her CV. Thanks to all contributors to this Newsletter. Last year Emily Cottrell visited our library. Best wishes, Marie-Anne de Roode Pythagoras Foundation Library Information. The Library collects all publications concerning Pythagoras and Pythagoreans. The library is a lending library; also copies of articles can be ordered. Copy and postage costs will be calculated. The Foundation is a non-profit organisation; our Newsletter is free of charge. Donations, also in the form of articles or books are very welcome. The Pythagoras Foundation, Thorbeckelaan 46, 1412 BR Naarden, The Netherlands International Bank Account Number (IBAN): NL48 RABO 0148 0000 45 BIC: RABONL2U News from the library The Pythagoras Foundation’s main activities are collecting and distributing information. Important step are made in the transition to a digital library. All 8000 articles from the ARTICLE DATABASE are in digital form now. We also finished the book databases. The BOOK DATABASE before 1900 contains 850 books published before 1900, all in digital form (pdf files). The BOOK DATABASE after 1900 contains 1424 books published after 1900, in paper form, and 466 books in digital form (pdf files). See page 4 for more information. We keep you informed. Nico Bader 2 Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter. No. 22, February 2017 Acknowledgements The Pythagoras Foundation thanks the following individuals for their contributions and generosities: Emily Cottrell, Constantinos Macris, Jean-Claude Picot, and Sarah B. Pomeroy. The Pythagoras Foundation thanks the following institutions for their contributions and generosities: Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu , L’ Annee Philologique, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR), Classicists [[email protected]], homepage Empedocles https://sites.google.com/site/empedoclesacragas/, Forum Philosophicum [email protected], infoclassicas - yahoogroups, Neoplatonists [email protected], Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, and Philia- gemeenschap [email protected] (and others). Illustration said to depict a younger Pythagoras teaching women. Colophon Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter; starting 2012, published once a year. Editors: Nico Bader, Marie-Anne de Roode Address: Thorbeckelaan 46. 1412 BR Naarden. The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.stichting-pythagoras.nl/ Editorial Board, in progress Advisory Board, in progress ISSN: 1872-3241 (online version); 1872-3233 (printed version) 3 Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter. No. 22, February 2017 News from the library The Pythagoras Foundation’s main activities are collecting and distributing information. Important steps are made in the transition to a digital library. ARTICLE DATABASE contains more than 8.000 articles in digital form in Access format. Articles mean; journal articles, book chapters, internet articles and others. Every record contains 10 fields, viz; article number, author, title, journal/book chapter/Internet, source, publication year, volume/chapter, pages, classification code and keyword. Here is a selection of topics out of these articles, viz 10 main characters, and 10 pythagorean subjects, with number of hits. 1 Pythagoras all 11 Philosophy 2 Alcmaeon, 55 items 12 Cosmology 330 items 3 Apollonius of Tyana, 283 items 13 Golden Verses 186 items 4 Archytas, 95 items 14 Harmony 136 items 5 Empedocles, 800 items 15 Mathematics 520 items 6 Hypatia of Alexandria 40 items 16 Metempsychosis 53 items 7 Iamblichus 210 items 17 Music 470 items 8 Nicomachus, 55 items 18 Portraits / coins 81 items 9 Philolaus, 55 items 19 Somnium Scipionis 118 items 10 Theon 26 items 20 Tabula Cebetis 100 items Page 8 gives the database records for the subject Pythagorean women; page 12 for Hypatia. We also finished the book databases. BOOK DATABASE before 1900 contains 850 books published before 1900, all in digital form (pdf files). BOOK DATABASE after 1900 contains 1424 books published after 1900, in paper form and 466 books in digital form (pdf files). Every bookrecord contains 6 fields, biz. book number, author, title, publication year, classification code and keyword. Page 8 gives the database records for the subject; Pythagorean women; p 12 for Hypatia. The databases are not yet public available; searches can be done on request. We keep you informed. Nico Bader 4 Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter. No. 22, February 2017 Sarah B. Pomeroy Pythagorean Women and Me (summary of the interview) Pythagorean women have become a vital part of the mainstream of the I have been writing about history of women philosophers. For Pythagorean women for most of my example, see Sandrine Berger scholarly career. They are discussed in https://feministhistoryofphilosophy.word my first book Goddesses, Whores, press.com/2013/10/21/where-are-all- Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical the-pythagorean-women-gone/, and Antiquity (1975) and at greater length Vicki Lynn Harper in M. E. Waithe, in my second book Women in Hellenistic Ancient Women Philosophers: 600 B.C.- Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra 500 A. D. (1987). It is definitely time (1984). Working on Spartan Women they were included in general histories (2002) I noticed how many Spartans of ancient philosophy. were listed by Iamblichus as Pythagoreans: that Spartan women Nico Bader asked me what I were attracted to Pythagoreanism did found most fascinating about Theano. not seem to me remarkable. Certainly the romantic quality of her marriage to Pythagoras was unusual. Scholars used to argue that The sources describe Pythagoras as works attributed to women authors such especially handsome and charismatic. as Erinna and the Pythagoreans were Furthermore, anecdotes about Theano written by men who adopted indicate that her wisdom encompassed pseudonymns. My research in the understanding how even a bare arm -- literacy of Greek women ("Technikai kai let alone a nude body -- could be Mousikai: The Education of Women in seductive. the Fourth Century and in the Hellenistic Period," [1977], etc.) established that Mr. Bader also asked if I was a women could actually have written the Pythagorean. Because I play the literature that is attributed to them. The harpsichord the Pythagorean focus on publication by Roger Bagnall and music and harmony is attractive. After Raffaella Cribbiore of letters written by considering the various options I can women living in provincial towns in say that if I were a Greek woman living Egypt (Women's Letters from Ancient in antiquity and could choose the way I Egypt. 300 B.C.-A.D. 800 [2006]) wanted to live my life, I think that being shows that even women without literary a Pythagorean would be one of the pretensions were able to write. better choices. 5 Pythagoras Foundation Newsletter. No. 22, February 2017 SARAH B. POMEROY CV; this is a selection; the complete CV will be send on request. Special Interests Women and the Family in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, Greek History, Greek Prose, Papyrology Education Employment Publications Books : (selection) Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity New York: Schocken [Random House], 1975; pb. 1976; reissued with new Foreword 1995; Italian translations: Einaudi, 1978, Bompiani, 1997; German translation: Alfred Kroner, 1985; Spanish translation, Editorial Akal, 1987; Polish translation: Atext, 1999. ACLS History E-Book. Penguin, Bodley Head pb. 2015. Women's History and Ancient History Ed. with Preface by Sarah B. Pomeroy (Chapel Hill:
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