Ordinare il corpo secondo misura. L’immaginario femminile pitagorico

Autore: Ida Brancaccio
In: Genesis. X/1, 2011
doi:10.1400/180147
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Abstract

Order the body according to the measure. The definition of the boundaries of identity in the Pythagorean female imaginary
Starting point of this essay are some texts included in the book of Holger Thesleff, The Pythagorean Texts of Hellenistic Period (1965), which are attributed to women philosophers (whose names are Theano, Melissa, Periktione, Phintys) and that highlight how important was in ancient Pythagoreanism not only human bodies generally, but also female bodies. Even if silence was an high significant value, above all for women, Pythagorean “women” philosophers talk with us, by their letters and fragments, about the essential rules to use bodies properly (the right way to dress, comb and make up, which is the correct behaviour to follow and the healthy nourishment to eat), giving us the possibility to define their identities boundaries and the social role they had within and outwardly the oikos.