Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Hypatia of Alexandria This volume searches behind the legend of Hypatia of Alexandria - mathematician, Neoplatonist and renowned beauty who was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in 415 - to provide a new perspective on her life and death.
Full description- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 October 1996
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Gender Studies: Women | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500
- ISBN 13: 9780674437760 ISBN 10: 0674437764
- Sales rank: 175,329
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Full description for Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia - mathematician, Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty - was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. In this book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and insight into her 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 takes us back to the Alexandria of Hypatia's day, constructing a picture of the young philosopher's disciples and teaching, and clarifying what Hypatia's murder tells us about the tensions of this era.
