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    The letters of Melissa, Myia, and Theano may have been in... — Carmelics
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    The letters of Melissa, Myia, and Theano may have been intended as a curriculum for the moral training of women

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    • 1.The letters of Melissa and Myia along with three letters of Theano are often found together in the manuscript tradition
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    • 2.Their shared manuscript grouping suggests they came to be seen as a unified collection
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    • 1.Manuscript co-transmission reflects scribal organizational habits rather than original authorial intent or pedagogical design.
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    • 2.Ancient pseudepigraphical letters were routinely grouped by attributed author or school without any unified curricular purpose.
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    • 1.The letters exhibit inconsistent doctrinal content across texts, with Theano's letters addressing cosmology and household management in ways incompatible with a single pedagogical program.
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    • 2.A unified moral curriculum requires thematic progression and internal cross-referencing, neither of which scholars like Holger Thesleff have identified in these Pythagorean pseudepigrapha.
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    One important group of Pythagorean pseudepigrapha are those forged in the names of Pythagorean women. Although some work has been done on them there is still a pressing need for a comprehensive collection of these texts and a study of them in light of the most recent scholarship on Pythagoreanism. Pomeroy 2013 provides some useful commentary but has serious drawbacks (see Centrone 2014b and Brodersen 2014). Many of the texts are collected in Thesleff 1965 under the names Theano, Periktione, Meli
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