Hypatia
The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher
(Sprache: Englisch)
Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher brings to life Hypatia's intellectual and political triumphs, uncovers the unique challenges she faced as a female teacher in a man's world, details the tragic story of her murder, and shows why her...
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Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher brings to life Hypatia's intellectual and political triumphs, uncovers the unique challenges she faced as a female teacher in a man's world, details the tragic story of her murder, and shows why her story has fascinated people for 1600 years.
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A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best-known female intellectuals. For 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 murder.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Hypatia “
- 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
- Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Edward J. Watts
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.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edward J. Watts
- 2017, 224 Seiten, Maße: 16,5 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0190210036
- ISBN-13: 9780190210038
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.04.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The book is written in a readable style, without sacrificing rigor or intellectual transparency. The research is thorough. References and details are put in end notes ordered by chapter, easily accessible to the interested reader without disturbing the text ow. I can recommend this book to university students as well as to the general reader interested in late Roman philosophy or in the life of one of the few known female philosophers from before modern times. Christian Bennet, Mathematical Reviews
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