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Hypatia of Alexandria by Hypatia;Hypatie;en;από την Αλεξάνδρεια Υπατία;Dzielska, Maria is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Ancient Western philosophy to c 500,European history: BCE to c 500 CE,Women,History: World,History,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Ancient Greece,Women's Studies - History,History / Ancient / General,Ancient - General,Hypatia, -415,Hypatie, m. 415,Hypatie, (0370?-0415?),Hypatia (Alexandrina),Women philosophers,Alexandrian school,Femmes philosophes,École philosophique d'Alexandrie

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Author

Hypatia;Hypatie;en;από την Αλεξάνδρεια Υπατία;Dzielska, Maria

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Rating

3.54 / 5 (203 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14