Birth:
c. 3rd century BCE
Tolmeita, Libya
Was a harmonic theorist, author of Pythagorean Principles of Music (Πυθαγορικὴ τῆς μουσικῆς στοιχείωσις). She lived perhaps in the 3rd century BC, and “certainly not after the first century AD.
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See Also:
- Andrew Barker, Greek Musical Writings, vol. 2, Harmonic and Acoustic Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 239–242,
- Levin, Flora R. Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music, Cambridge University Press, 2009, Chapter 7: “Aisthēsis and Logos: A Single Continent”
- Plant, Ian Michael, ed. Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology.
- Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemais_of_Cyrene
Publications by Ptolemais of Cyrene (c.3rd century BCE)
The Pythagorean Principles of Music