Ae'sara
(
*Ai)sa/ra), of Lucania, a female Pythagorean philosopher, said to be a daughter of Pythagoras, wrote a work "about Human Nature," of which a fragment is preserved by Stobaeus. (
Ecl. i. p. 847, ed. Heeren.) Some editors attribute this fragment to Aresas, one of the successors of Pythagoras, but Bentley prefers reading Aesara.
She is also mentioned in the life of Pythagoras (apud
. Phot. Cod. 249, p. 438b. ed. Bekker), where Bentley reads
Αἰσάρα instead of
Σάρα. (
Dissertation upon Plalaris, p. 277.)