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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 151 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674437764
Release Date: Jan 9, 1996
| |  | | | In Brief
This is an account of the life of the fourth-century "philosopher, mathematician, and teacher. . . . {The author concludes} that Hypatia was nearly 60 at the time of her death, that she edited the extant works of other Alexandrian philosophers, and that her . . . murder in 415 was a by-product of a power struggle among Christian factions in the city." (Libr J) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
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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