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Were there any famous female philosophers in Ancient Greece?

All the books I've read contain names of a ton of male philosophers -- even the minor ones -- but absolutely none of female philosophers. From what I know, Greece was an intellectual powerhouse, so it's hard to believe that there were absolutely no female philosophers at all.

Did anyone document them? Or were socio-cultural conditions at the time not conducive for female philosophers to be open and public about their intellectualism?
gpt
We largely don't have writings from them, but some are mentioned, for instance: Diotima, who supposedly taught Socrates and to whom is attributed his teachings in the *Symposium*; and Hypatia, who is famous from Carl Sagan's *Cosmos* and related pseudo-history but was a legitimate historical figure working in the Neoplatonic context in late antiquity.