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The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Damo




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Raphael. Pythagoras and Damo, detail from The School of Athens, 1509. Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican

Damo
b. circa 535 B.C.; d. circa 475 B.C., Athens, ancient Greece

Damo was the daughter of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras and his wife Theano, also a philosopher. She studied and then taught at her father's school in the Greek city of Croton, and later moved to Athens, where she published some of Pythagoras' work on geometry.

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Last updated April 13, 2007.
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