Leontion

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  • Active in the early 3rd century BC (exact dates unknown), Athens. Wrote in Greek. A female member of the Garden, formerly a hetaira, who became a respected philosopher in her own right; Epicurus wrote to her with evident affection, and she is credited with a treatise criticizing the Peripatetic philosopher Theophrastus, a striking case of a woman writing philosophical polemic in this period.

    Active in the early 3rd century BC (exact dates unknown), Athens. Wrote in Greek. A female member of the Garden, formerly a hetaira, who became a respected philosopher in her own right; Epicurus wrote to her with evident affection, and she is credited with a treatise criticizing the Peripatetic philosopher Theophrastus, a striking case of a woman writing philosophical polemic in this period.

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