Hypatia : the true story /

Hypatia : the true story / Silvia Ronchey ; English translation by Nicolò Sassi ; with the collaboration of Giulia Maria Paoletti.

This study reconstructs Hypatia's existential and intellectual life and her modern Nachleben through a reception-oriented and interdisciplinary approach. Unlike previous publications on the subject, Hypatia explores all available ancient and medieval sources as well as the history of the recept...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ronchey, Silvia (Author)
Other Authors: Paoletti, Giulia Maria (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
Subjects:
Hypatia, > -415.
Women philosophers > Egypt > Biography.
Philosophers > Egypt > Biography.
Egypt > Intellectual life.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Note of the Author
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Setting out the Facts
  • 1 Once there was a Woman
  • 2 The Destruction of the Serapeum
  • 3 Elegant Insolence
  • 4 The Terrible Patriarch of Alexandria
  • 5 Good Use of Power
  • 6 Treacherous Zeal
  • 7 The Bishop of Nikiu
  • 8 A Three-Handed Game
  • 9 The Intimidation of Orestes
  • 10 Mortal Envy
  • 11 The Cover-Up
  • Part II: Betraying the Facts
  • 12 The Glory of Her Own Sex and the Wonder of Ours
  • 13 The Excesses of Fanaticism
  • 14 A Very Beautiful and Well-educated Woman is Torn Asunder
  • 15 From Fielding to Gibbon Passing Through the Shadow of a Donkey
  • 16 The Catholic Wing
  • 17 Refreshing Exceptions
  • 18 Uncontrolled Effects on the Poets
  • 19 New Faces For Old Foes
  • 20 Kulturkampf. Hypatia à la Bismarck
  • 21 Celestial Virgin
  • 22 Miraculous Devotion. Chateaubriand, Péguy and the Flourishing of Feminist Literature
  • 23 Superfluous Heroisms
  • 24 The Force of the Universe
  • 25 A Name, a Mantra
  • Part III: Interpreting the Facts
  • 26 May the Witnesses Return to the Court
  • 27 The DNA of the Ancient Tradition
  • 28 Church and State
  • 29 An Age of Anxiety
  • 30 Hypatia in All Her States of Being
  • 31 What Did Hypatia Teach?
  • 32 All Synesius' Mysteries
  • 33 Synesius, Hypatia and Philosophia
  • 34 Women Who Philosophised
  • 35 The Power of Hypatia
  • 36 Dramatis Personae
  • 37 Hypatia's Sacrifice
  • 38 The Martyrdom of Hypatia
  • 39 A Question of Method
  • 40 The Eminence of Hypatia
  • Aftershock: And What If...
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names.

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