Theano

Did not Theano the Pythagorean come to such a height of philosophy that, when a man, looking at her inquisitively, said, "A fair arm," she answered, "But not a public one"?

"Life would indeed be a feast for the wicked who, having done evil, then die, if the soul were not immortal";

And Didymus, in his work On Pythagorean Philosophy, relates that Theano of Croton was the first of women to philosophize and to write poems.

Meges, moreover, slew Pedaios, son of Antenor, who, though he was a bastard, had been brought up by Theano as one of her own children, for the love she bore her husband.

"Holy Athena," she cried, "protectress of our city, mighty goddess, break the spear of Diomedes and lay him low before the Scaean gates.

When they reached the temple of Athena, lovely Theano, daughter of Kisseus and wife of Antenor, opened the doors, for the Trojans had made her priestess of Athena.