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Moral education for women in the pastoral and Pythagorean letters : philosophers of the household / by Annette Bourland Huizenga.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 147.Publication details: Boston : Brill, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9004245189
  • 9789004245181
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 170.82 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1610 .H78 2013
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Women and Ancient Philosophy; Socrates and Plato; Aristotle; Xenophon; Musonius Rufus, Plutarch, and Crates; Pythagorean Writings; The Pastoral Letters; A Curriculum for Female Philosophers; PART ONE. THE PYTHAGOREAN WOMEN'S LETTERS; Chapter One. The Pythagorean Letter Collection; The Codex Tradition; Papyrus Hauniensis II. 13; Dating the Letters; Philosophical Background; Reading Strategies for Letter Collections; The Original Audience for the Letter Collection(s); Annotated Translations; Collection MM: Letters of Melissa and Myia.
Collection TH3: Letters of TheanoChapter Two. Female Pythagorean Teachers; Pseudepigraphy and the Pythagorean Women's Letters; The Pseudonym Melissa -- The Pseudonym Myia -- The Pseudonym Theano -- The Function of Female Pseudonyms in the Pythagorean Letters; Chapter Three. Teaching Strategies; The Letter Collection MM: Melissa to Kleareta and Myia to Phyllis; Rhetorical Analysis of Melissa to Kleareta, a Paraenetic Letter; Rhetorical Analysis of Myia to Phyllis, a Paraenetic Letter; The Letter Collection TH3: Theano to Euboule, Theano to Nikostrate, and Theano to Kallisto.
Rhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Euboule, "" a Letter of CensureRhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Nikostrate, "" a Letter of Censure; Rhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Kallisto, "" a Paraenetic Letter; Chapter Four. Topics for Women; Subject Matter: Melissa to Kleareta; Subject Matter: Myia to Phyllis; Subject Matter: Theano to Euboule; Subject Matter: Theano to Nikostrate; Subject Matter: Theano to Kallisto; Conclusion to Part One: The Good Woman Topos; ""The Good Woman"" Topos; PART TWO. THE PASTORAL LETTERS; Chapter Five. The Pastorals Letter Collection.
Text History: The Pastorals as a Sub-Collection within the Corpus PaulinumInternal Evidence for the Pastorals Corpus; Reading Strategies for Letter Collections; Conclusion; Chapter Six. Teachers and Learners; Teachers in the Pastorals; Male Teachers; Female Teachers; Teachers as Examples for Imitation; Learners in the Pastorals: Recipients of Paraenesis and Rebuke; Male Learners; Female Learners; Conclusions and Comparisons; Chapter Seven. Teachings Strategies; Teaching Methods: Paraenesis and Rebuke; Antitheses as Instructional Devices; Form and Function of Antitheses; Warnings and Promises.
Vices and VirtuesImmoral and Moral Examples; 1. Scriptural Example: Eve; 2. Examples of Unnamed Widows; 3. Historical Examples: Lois and Eunice, Prisca and Claudia; 4. Examples of Unnamed Older Women; 5. Examples for Men and Women; Further Comparisons with the Pythagorean Letters; Conclusions; Chapter Eight. Topics for Women; Sophrosyne in the Pastoral Letters; Sophrosyne for Women; Sophrosyne for Men; Comparison of Masculine and Feminine sophrosyne in the Pastorals; Modest Deportment (Adornment and Speech); Good Women: Philosophers of the Household; Households and the Pastorals; Wife.
Summary: In Moral Education for Women in the Pastoral and Pythagorean Letters: Philosophers of the Household, Annette Bourland Huizenga examines the Greco-Roman moral-philosophical "curriculum" for women by comparing these two pseudepigraphic epistolary collections
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List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Women and Ancient Philosophy; Socrates and Plato; Aristotle; Xenophon; Musonius Rufus, Plutarch, and Crates; Pythagorean Writings; The Pastoral Letters; A Curriculum for Female Philosophers; PART ONE. THE PYTHAGOREAN WOMEN'S LETTERS; Chapter One. The Pythagorean Letter Collection; The Codex Tradition; Papyrus Hauniensis II. 13; Dating the Letters; Philosophical Background; Reading Strategies for Letter Collections; The Original Audience for the Letter Collection(s); Annotated Translations; Collection MM: Letters of Melissa and Myia.

Collection TH3: Letters of TheanoChapter Two. Female Pythagorean Teachers; Pseudepigraphy and the Pythagorean Women's Letters; The Pseudonym Melissa -- The Pseudonym Myia -- The Pseudonym Theano -- The Function of Female Pseudonyms in the Pythagorean Letters; Chapter Three. Teaching Strategies; The Letter Collection MM: Melissa to Kleareta and Myia to Phyllis; Rhetorical Analysis of Melissa to Kleareta, a Paraenetic Letter; Rhetorical Analysis of Myia to Phyllis, a Paraenetic Letter; The Letter Collection TH3: Theano to Euboule, Theano to Nikostrate, and Theano to Kallisto.

Rhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Euboule, "" a Letter of CensureRhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Nikostrate, "" a Letter of Censure; Rhetorical Analysis of ""Theano to Kallisto, "" a Paraenetic Letter; Chapter Four. Topics for Women; Subject Matter: Melissa to Kleareta; Subject Matter: Myia to Phyllis; Subject Matter: Theano to Euboule; Subject Matter: Theano to Nikostrate; Subject Matter: Theano to Kallisto; Conclusion to Part One: The Good Woman Topos; ""The Good Woman"" Topos; PART TWO. THE PASTORAL LETTERS; Chapter Five. The Pastorals Letter Collection.

Text History: The Pastorals as a Sub-Collection within the Corpus PaulinumInternal Evidence for the Pastorals Corpus; Reading Strategies for Letter Collections; Conclusion; Chapter Six. Teachers and Learners; Teachers in the Pastorals; Male Teachers; Female Teachers; Teachers as Examples for Imitation; Learners in the Pastorals: Recipients of Paraenesis and Rebuke; Male Learners; Female Learners; Conclusions and Comparisons; Chapter Seven. Teachings Strategies; Teaching Methods: Paraenesis and Rebuke; Antitheses as Instructional Devices; Form and Function of Antitheses; Warnings and Promises.

Vices and VirtuesImmoral and Moral Examples; 1. Scriptural Example: Eve; 2. Examples of Unnamed Widows; 3. Historical Examples: Lois and Eunice, Prisca and Claudia; 4. Examples of Unnamed Older Women; 5. Examples for Men and Women; Further Comparisons with the Pythagorean Letters; Conclusions; Chapter Eight. Topics for Women; Sophrosyne in the Pastoral Letters; Sophrosyne for Women; Sophrosyne for Men; Comparison of Masculine and Feminine sophrosyne in the Pastorals; Modest Deportment (Adornment and Speech); Good Women: Philosophers of the Household; Households and the Pastorals; Wife.

In Moral Education for Women in the Pastoral and Pythagorean Letters: Philosophers of the Household, Annette Bourland Huizenga examines the Greco-Roman moral-philosophical "curriculum" for women by comparing these two pseudepigraphic epistolary collections

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