Ptolemaïs of Kyrene. The Pythagorean Elements of Music
Extracts of the musical treatise of Ptolemaïs of Kyrene, the only female musical theorist in Antiquity, preserved by Porphyry in his Commentary to Ptolemy’s Harmonics, are important, first of all, because, they belongs to those very scanty testimonies that witness continuous development of the musical science from the time of Aristoxenus to this