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Hypatia of Alexandria
Maria Dzielska
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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.

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Harvard University Press
Language
English
Pages
157

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Subjects
Alexandrian school, Women philosophers
People
Hypatia (d. 415)
Places
Egypt
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Hypatia of Alexandria
1995, Harvard University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-151]) and index.
"Adapted and translated from the unpublished manuscript"--T.p. verso.

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Cambridge, Mass
Series
Revealing antiquity ;, 8

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
186/.4, B
Library of Congress
B667.H84 D9513 1995, B667.H84D9513 1995, B667.H84 D95 1995

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Pagination
viii, 157 p. ;
Number of pages
157

ID Numbers

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OL1099720M
ISBN 10
0674437756
LCCN
94024499
OCLC/WorldCat
31295206
Library Thing
384583
Goodreads
1530608

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