Myia

Myia in Wikipedia

Myia (Greek: Μυῖα; c. 500 BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher and, according to later tradition, one of the daughters of Theano and Pythagoras.[1] She was married to Milo of Croton, the famous athlete. She was a choir leader as a girl, and as a woman, she was noted for her exemplary religious behaviour.[2] Lucian, in his In Praise of a Fly, states th...

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Myia in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A daughter of Pythagoras and Theano , and wife of the great athlete Milo of Crotona....

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