... in bronze-age Mycenaean culture, but it is thought they were not as well regarded as in ancient Minoan society. Mycenaean women are less prominent in the artifactual evidence. Earlier sacred sites to goddesses appear to be replaced by male gods like Zeus and Apollo, although the Mycenaean's continued to worship the Mountain Mother at sanctuaries in the mountains. We get ... according to Plato in his Symposium, where Diotima, a woman, teaches Socrates. Theano, Pythagoras' wife was also a philosopher and she along with her daughters may have authored one of the "sacred discourses" hithert...

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