Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

by Edward J. Watts
Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

by Edward J. Watts

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Overview

A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During 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 death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her great skill in mathematics and philosophy redefined the intellectual life of her home city of Alexandria. Her talent as a teacher enabled her to assemble a circle of dedicated male students. Her devotion to public service made her a force for peace and good government in a city that struggled to maintain trust and cooperation between pagans and Christians.

Despite these successes, Hypatia fought countless small battles to live the public and intellectual life that she wanted. This book rediscovers the life Hypatia led, the unique challenges she faced as a woman who succeeded spectacularly in a man's world, and the tragic story of the events that led to her tragic murder.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190210038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/14/2017
Series: Women in Antiquity
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

The Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, Edward Watts studies the intellectual and religious history of the later Roman and early Byzantine Empires. He is the author of three prize-winning books and the editor of three edited volumes. This is his first of two upcoming works for OUP.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of figures

Introduction: A Lenten Murder

Chapter 1: Alexandria

Chapter 2: Childhood and Education

Chapter 3: The School of Hypatia

Chapter 4: Middle Age

Chapter 5: A Philosophical Mother and her Children

Chapter 6: The Public Intellectual

Chapter 7: Hypatia's Sisters

Chapter 8: Murder in the Street

Chapter 9: The Memory of Hypatia

Chapter 10: A Modern Symbol

Reconsidering A Legend

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