Damo
b. circa 535 B.C.E.; d. circa 475 B.C.E., Athens, ancient Greece
Damo was the daughter of the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras and his wife Theano, also a philosopher. She studied and then taught at her father’s school in the Greek city of Croton, and later moved to Athens, where she published some of Pythagoras’ work on geometry.

Raphael. Pythagoras and Damo, detail from The School of Athens, 1509. Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican