Ancient Greek women philosophers

thumb|right|Marble portrait herm (sculpture)|herm identified by an inscription as Aspasia, possibly copied from her grave. Aspasia (after 428 BC) was a metic woman who lived in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles. According to the traditional historical narrative, she worked as a courtesan, though modern scholars have questioned the factual basis for this claim, which derives from ancient comedy. Though Aspasia is one of the best-attested women from the Greco-Roman world, and the most important woman in the history of fift

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6th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher

Cynic philosopher

Aedesia () was a philosopher of the Neoplatonic school who lived in Alexandria in the fifth century AD. She was a relation of Syrianus and the wife of Hermias, and was equally celebrated for her beauty and her virtues. After the death of her husband, she devoted herself to relieving the wants of the distressed and the education of her children, Ammonius and Heliodorus. She accompanied the latter to Athens, where they went to study philosophy, and was received with great distinction by all the philosophers there, and especially by Proclus, to whom she had been betrothed by Syrianus, when she wa

3rd and 4th century Egyptian alchemist and author

4th-century BC Greek philosopher

Asclepigenia (; fl. 430 – 485 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived in the 5th century AD who was the daughter of Plutarch of Athens, the founder of the New Academy in Athens. She and her brother Hierius studied under the doctrines of Plato and Aristotle under her father. According to Marinus' Life of Proclus, Proclus, who would later go on to be the head of the Athenian academy, studied theurgy under her. She is said to have died in the year 485 A.D. ==References==

thumb|Ill. from De mulieribus claris Leontion (, ; fl. 300 BC) was a notable Greek Epicurean philosopher and student of Epicurus's Garden School. She is known for her authored work against Theophrastus, the head of the Aristotelian school. The manuscript she wrote has been lost over time, but it has been written about by many philosophers over the centuries, including Cicero and Pliny the Elder.

Sosipatra () was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic who lived in Ephesus and Pergamon in the first half of the 4th century AF. The story of her life is told in Eunapius' Lives of the Sophists.

Myia (; , literally "Fly"; fl. c. 500 BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher and, according to later tradition, one of the daughters of Theano and Pythagoras.

Perictione ( Periktiónē; ) was the mother of the Greek philosopher Plato.

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thumb|317x317px|Delphi|The Temple of Apollo/Delphi Themistoclea (; Themistokleia; also Aristoclea (; Ἀριστοκλεία Aristokleia), Theoclea (; Θεοκλεία Theokleia); fl. 6th century BCE) was a priestess at Delphi who was said to be a teacher of Pythagoras.

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Aesara of Lucania (, Aisara) (fl. 400BC - 300BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher and attested author of On Human Nature, a fragment of which is preserved by Stobaeus. The authorship has been contested, most notably by Holger Thesleff in a critical note to the Greek text. Thesleff suggests that the attribution by Stobaeus to Aesara (a feminine name) is an emendation error in the manuscript. He attributes it instead to Aresas, a male writer from Lucania who is also mentioned by Iamblichus in his Life of Pythagoras.

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ancient Greek philosopher

third-century BC mathematician and musical theorist, author of Pythagorean Principles of Music

Arignote or Arignota (; , Arignṓtē; fl. c. ) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Croton, Magna Graecia, or from Samos. She was known as a student of Pythagoras and Theano and, according to some traditions, their daughter as well.

Abrotelia () ( 5th century BC) was a female Pythagorean philosopher from Tarentum, Magna Graecia. She was one of seventeen women included in the Life of Pythagoras written by Iamblichus as part of his treatise On Pythagoreanism.

Phintys was a Pythagorean philosopher, probably from the third century BC. She wrote a work on the correct behaviour of women, two extracts of which are preserved by Stobaeus.

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ancient Greek philosopher and/or hetaira

Pythagorean philosopher

Timycha of Sparta (; early 4th century BC), was a Pythagorean philosopher mentioned by Iamblichus in his Life of Pythagoras:

5th–6th-century Neoplatonist based in Alexandria