Ancient Women Philosophers - Recovered Ideas and New Perspectives

"This volume of essays retrieves the largely unresearched thought and the original ideas of ancient women philosophers and carves out a space for them in the canon. The broad focus includes women thinkers in ancient Indian, Chinese, and Arabic philosophy as well as in the Greek and Roman philosophical traditions"--

List of contents

Introduction: the value of women philosophers for the history of philosophy Caterina Pellò and Katharine R. O'Reilly; 1. Beyond gender: the voice of Diotima Frisbee C. C. Sheffield; 2. Sulabh¿ and Indian philosophy: rhetoric, gender, and philosophy in the Mah¿bh¿rata Brian Black; 3. Women's medical knowledge in antiquity: beyond midwifery Sophia M. Connell; 4. Ancient women epicureans and their anti-hedonist critics Kelly Arenson; 5. Arete of Cyrene and the role of women in philosophical lineage Katharine R. O'Reilly; 6. Women at the crossroads: life and death for the stoic wife Kate Meng Brassel; 7. Pythagorean women and the domestic as a philosophical topic Rosemary Twomey; 8. Perictione, mother of metaphysics: a new philosophical reading of on wisdom Giulia De Cesaris and Caterina Pellò; 9. Not veiled in silence: the case for macrina Anna B. Christensen; 10. Women philosophers and ideals of being a woman in Neoplatonic schools of late antiquity: the examples of Sosipatra of Ephesus and Hypatia of Alexandria Jana Schultz; 11. Reappraising Ban Zhao: the advent of Chinese women philosophers Ann A. Pang-White; 12. The reception of Plato on women: Proclus, Averroes, Marinella Peter Adamson; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This volume of essays retrieves the largely unresearched thought and the original ideas of ancient women philosophers and carves out a space for them in the canon. The broad focus includes women thinkers in ancient Indian, Chinese, and Arabic philosophy as well as in the Greek and Roman philosophical traditions.

Foreword

This book studies largely unresearched ideas of ancient women philosophers and recovers their contributions to the history of philosophy.

Product details

• Assisted by: Katharine R. O'Reilly (Editor), Caterina Pellò (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781009013895
• ISBN: 978-1-009-01389-5
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, CE period up to c 1500, Ancient Rome, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Gender studies: women and girls, East and Southeast Asian languages, Indo-European languages, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, East Asian and Indian philosophy, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts