Talk:Arete of Cyrene

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Arete and Boccaccio

This is a bit of a puzzle. I tried to find the authority for the statement in an earlier version of this page [1] that Arete wrote 40 books, and taught philosophy in Attica, etc. I finally tracked it down to H. J. Mozans, (1913), Woman in Science, pages 197-9, who says that this statement comes from the famous 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio, apparently in his book On Famous Women. The puzzle is that I can find no independent verification of this. Modern encyclopedias and textbooks which repeat these lines all seem to refer to Mozans' book as the authority [2]. I don't think that Mozans (the pen-name of John Augustine Zahm) was making this up, indeed he even gives us the Latin text he's translating, but modern versions of On Famous Women, and books about it [3] don't seem to make any reference to Arete at all. Singinglemon (talk) 17:20, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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References are needed, but it's difficult to see how this could be expanded significantly beyond stub status. Espresso Addict 01:42, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 01:42, 24 September 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 08:12, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Hmm. In the version I'm reading today, this is definitely not a stub article, even if considered only on its length. It discusses the subject adequately -- that is, there are no significant omissions -- & is provided with footnotes. Yes, we lack details such as dates of birth & death, physical appearance, & any number of events in her life we know must have happened; but that is not unusual when writing about individuals of this period. Taking that into consideration, I'm regrading this as a "Start" article. My suggestions for improving this article further would be to add details that add context to Arete's life: how she compared to other women philosophers, other women of the time, other inhabitants of Cyrene, discuss more fully how her teachings influenced later writers. -- llywrch (talk) 16:58, 11 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]