Callisto
a female Pythagorean.
Works
Letter of Theano to Callisto
Theano, the wife of Pythagoras, addressed a letter on the proper way of governing a family to Callisto. The letter is extant.
Editions
printed in the Aldine collection published at Rome in 1499, and at Geneva, with the Latin translation, in 1606.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. ii. p. 10.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.