Hypatia Of Alexandria

Author : Maria Dzielska
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674736504

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Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska Pdf

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. She takes us back to the Alexandria of Hypatia's day, with its Library and Museion, pagan cults and the pontificate of Saint Cyril, thriving Jewish community and vibrant Greek culture, and circles of philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, and militant Christians. Drawing on the letters of Hypatia's most prominent pupil, Synesius of Cyrene, Dzielska constructs a compelling picture of the young philosopher's disciples and her teaching. Finally she plumbs her sources for the facts surrounding Hypatia's cruel death, clarifying what the murder tells us about the tensions of this tumultuous era.

Author : Michael Deakin
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781615921294

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Hypatia of Alexandria by Michael Deakin Pdf

This is the first biography of Hypatia of Alexandria to integrate all aspects of her life emphasizing that, though she was a philosopher, she was first and foremost a mathematician and astronomer of great accomplishment.

Author : Dawn LaValle Norman,Alex Petkas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Alexandria (Egypt)
ISBN : 3161549694

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Hypatia of Alexandria by Dawn LaValle Norman,Alex Petkas Pdf

Sixteen hundred years after her death (d. 415 CE), the legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria's life, teaching, and especially her violent demise, continue to influence modern culture. Through a series of focused articles, this volume takes a fresh look at the most well-known ancient female philosopher under three aspects: first, through the evidence provided by her most famous pupil, Synesius of Cyrene; next, by placing her in her late antique cultural context, and, finally, through analysis of her reception both ancient and modern. Though the sources are meager, Hypatia's influence on her students and wider culture guaranteed that she remained an important figure throughout the centuries, albeit one ranging from chaste Neoplatonist to conniving witch. Along with its eleven new essays, this volume also includes a new translation of all the principal ancient sources touching on Hypatia.

Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190659141

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Hypatia by Edward J. Watts Pdf

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.

Author : Sandy Donovan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematicians
ISBN : 9780756537609

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Hypatia by Sandy Donovan Pdf

A biography of the classical philosopher and scientist Hypatia of Alexandria.

Author : Michael A. B. Deakin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39076002827520

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Hypatia of Alexandria by Michael A. B. Deakin Pdf

In the late 4th and early 5th centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. This biography integrates all aspects of her life.

Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691002606

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Ptolemy's Almagest by Ptolemy Pdf

Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.

Author : Charlotte Kramer
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780741428943

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Holy Murder by Charlotte Kramer Pdf

Did Hypatia have the power to bring down the Christian Church? A corrupt Fifth Century Bishop thought so and ordered her savage bone chilling death. Later, he was made a saint.

Author : Silvia Ronchey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110718553

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Hypatia by Silvia Ronchey Pdf

This study reconstructs Hypatia’s existential and intellectual life and her modern Nachleben through a reception-oriented and interdisciplinary approach. Unlike previous publications on the subject, Hypatia explores all available ancient and medieval sources as well as the history of the reception of the figure of Hypatia in later history, literature, and arts in order to illuminate the ideological transformations/deformations of her story throughout the centuries and recover “the true story”. The intentionally provocative title relates to the contemporary historiographical notion of “false” or “fake history”, as does the overall conceptual and methodological treatment. Through this reception-oriented approach, this study suggests a new reading of the ancient sources that demonstrates the intrinsically political nature of the murder of Hypatia, caused by the phtonos (violent envy) of the Christian bishop Cyril of Alexandria. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the figure of Hypatia addressed to both academic readers – in Classics, Religious Studies, and Reception Studies – and a learned, non-specialist readership.

Author : Edward Jay Watts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190210038

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Hypatia by Edward Jay Watts Pdf

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.

Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752302035

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Hypatia by Charles Kingsley Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Hypatia by Charles Kingsley

Author : Faith L. Justice
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-17
Category : Mathematicians
ISBN : 147915735X

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Hypatia by Faith L. Justice Pdf

Who was Hypatia, Lady Philosopher of Alexandria? A brilliant young mathematician and scientist, murdered by a religious mob? An aging academic assassinated by a rival political party? A sorceress who kept the governor and people of Alexandria in thrall through satanic wiles? Did she discover that the earth circled the sun a thousand years before Copernicus or was she merely a gifted geometry teacher? Hypatia is the subject of much myth-making through the centuries. She's featured in poetry, plays, novels and movies. This collection of essays pulls back the curtain and lets the reader see the real woman behind the stories. You'll find Hypatia needs no embellishment to be a heroine.

Author : John Toland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N11716379

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Hypatia: Or, the History of a Most Beautiful, Most Vertuous, Most Learned, and Every Way Accomplish'd Lady; who was Torn to Pieces by the Clergy of Alexandria, ... by John Toland Pdf

Author : John Toland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Philosophers, Ancient
ISBN : UCSC:32106005616492

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Hypatia by John Toland Pdf

Author : Ki Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0975925598

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Flow Down Like Silver by Ki Longfellow Pdf

Ki Longfellow, author of the acclaimed The Secret Magdalene, has now written the astonishing life of Hypatia, famed throughout the Mediterranean world, a beauty and a genius, yet for 17 centuries ignored by history. As the Roman Empire fights for its life and emerging Christianity fights for our souls, Hypatia is the last great voice of reason. A woman of sublime intelligence, Hypatia ranks above not only all women, but all men. Hypatia dazzled the world with her brilliance, was courted by men of every persuasion and was considered the leading philosopher and mathematician of her age...yet her mathematics, her inventions, the very story of her life in all its epic and dramatic intensity, has gone untold. A heart-breaking love story, an heroic struggle against intolerance, a tragedy and a triumph, Hypatia walks through these pages fully realized while all around her Egypt's Alexandria, the New York City of its day, strives to remain a beacon of light in a darkening world.