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DAMO OF CROTON (fl. 6th century BC)

Life
Damo was the daughter of Pythagoras and Theano. She studied, and later taught, at the Pythagorean School at Croton. When the school closed, she sought refuge in Athens where, with the help of Thymaridas and Philolaus, she published her father's treatises on geometry. She is cited by Geminus, Iamblichus and Diogenes Laertius.


Work
Her principal work, in addition to treatises on the construction of a regular tetrahedron and the construction of a cube, is:

"An Account of Pythagoras": Advanced geometry.




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