Hypatia of Alexandria
Title | Hypatia of Alexandria PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Dzielska |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674437760 |
Hypatia—brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty—was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colorful world. Historians and poets, Victorian novelists and contemporary feminists have seen Hypatia as a symbol—of the waning of classical culture and freedom of inquiry, of the rise of fanatical Christianity, or of sexual freedom. Dzielska shows us why versions of Hypatia's legend have served her champions' purposes, and how they have distorted the true story. She takes us back to the Alexandria of Hypatia's day, with its Library and Museion, pagan cults and the pontificate of Saint Cyril, thriving Jewish community and vibrant Greek culture, and circles of philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, and militant Christians. Drawing on the letters of Hypatia's most prominent pupil, Synesius of Cyrene, Dzielska constructs a compelling picture of the young philosopher's disciples and her teaching. Finally she plumbs her sources for the facts surrounding Hypatia's cruel death, clarifying what the murder tells us about the tensions of this tumultuous era.
Hypatia of Alexandria
Title | Hypatia of Alexandria PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Dzielska |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 182 |
Release | 1996-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674736508 |
Hypatia—brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty—was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colorful world. Historians and poets, Victorian novelists and contemporary feminists have seen Hypatia as a symbol—of the waning of classical culture and freedom of inquiry, of the rise of fanatical Christianity, or of sexual freedom. Dzielska shows us why versions of Hypatia's legend have served her champions' purposes, and how they have distorted the true story. She takes us back to the Alexandria of Hypatia's day, with its Library and Museion, pagan cults and the pontificate of Saint Cyril, thriving Jewish community and vibrant Greek culture, and circles of philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, and militant Christians. Drawing on the letters of Hypatia's most prominent pupil, Synesius of Cyrene, Dzielska constructs a compelling picture of the young philosopher's disciples and her teaching. Finally she plumbs her sources for the facts surrounding Hypatia's cruel death, clarifying what the murder tells us about the tensions of this tumultuous era.
Hypatia of Alexandria
Title | Hypatia of Alexandria PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Deakin |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2010-09-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 161592129X |
This is the first biography of Hypatia of Alexandria to integrate all aspects of her life emphasizing that, though she was a philosopher, she was first and foremost a mathematician and astronomer of great accomplishment.
Hypatia
Title | Hypatia PDF eBook |
Author | Edward J. Watts |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2017-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190659149 |
A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual life of her home city of Alexandria. Her talent as a teacher enabled her to assemble a circle of dedicated male students. Her devotion to public service made her a force for peace and good government in a city that struggled to maintain trust and cooperation between pagans and Christians. Despite these successes, Hypatia fought countless small battles to live the public and intellectual life that she wanted. This book rediscovers the life Hypatia led, the unique challenges she faced as a woman who succeeded spectacularly in a man's world, and the tragic story of the events that led to her tragic murder.
Holy Murder
Title | Holy Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Kramer |
Publisher | Infinity Publishing |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2006-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0741428946 |
Did Hypatia have the power to bring down the Christian Church? A corrupt Fifth Century Bishop thought so and ordered her savage bone chilling death. Later, he was made a saint.
Hypatia
Title | Hypatia PDF eBook |
Author | Sandy Donovan |
Publisher | Capstone |
Total Pages | 58 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Mathematicians |
ISBN | 0756537606 |
A biography of the classical philosopher and scientist Hypatia of Alexandria.
Hypatia of Alexandria
Title | Hypatia of Alexandria PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn LaValle Norman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 357 |
Release | 2020-07 |
Genre | Alexandria (Egypt) |
ISBN | 9783161549694 |
Sixteen hundred years after her death (d. 415 CE), the legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria's life, teaching, and especially her violent demise, continue to influence modern culture. Through a series of focused articles, this volume takes a fresh look at the most well-known ancient female philosopher under three aspects: first, through the evidence provided by her most famous pupil, Synesius of Cyrene; next, by placing her in her late antique cultural context, and, finally, through analysis of her reception both ancient and modern. Though the sources are meager, Hypatia's influence on her students and wider culture guaranteed that she remained an important figure throughout the centuries, albeit one ranging from chaste Neoplatonist to conniving witch. Along with its eleven new essays, this volume also includes a new translation of all the principal ancient sources touching on Hypatia.