Hypatia : the life and legend of an ancient philosopher / Edward J. Watts.
A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best-known female intellectuals. For 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 deat...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Women in antiquity.
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Table of Contents:
- A Lenten murder
- Alexandria
- Childhood and education
- The school of Hypatia
- Middle age
- A philosophical mother and her children
- The public intellectual
- Hypatia's sisters
- Murder in the street
- The memory of Hypatia
- A modern symbol
- Reconsidering a legend.