A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Theano

by Mary Matilda Betham

THEANO, a triple Female Name of considerable Repute in Poetry.

The first of this name was Theano Locrensis, a native of the city of Locri, and surnamed Melica, from the exact melody to which all her lyric airs and songs were composed. The second, a Cretan poetess, is by some said to have been the wife of Pythagoras. The third, Theano Thuria, or Metapontina, daughter of the poet Lycophron. They are all three mentioned by Suidas. There are also three epistles of Theano, probably one of the three now mentioned, though which of them is not determined, published, with the epistles of several ancient Greek authors, at Venice, by Aldus.

Female Worthies.