Theāno
(
Θεανώ).
1.
The daughter of Cisseus, wife of Antenor , and priestess of Athené at Ilium.
2.
A celebrated female philosopher of the Pythagorean School, appears to have been the wife of
Pythagoras, and the mother by him of Telauges, Mnesarchus, Myia , and Arignoté;
but the accounts respecting her were various (
Diog. Laert. viii.
42; Suidas, s. h. v.). Letters ascribed to her, but not genuine, exist, and are edited
by Hercher
(1873).