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HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA
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| By: |
Maria Dzielska, F. Lyra (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£26.95 |
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£21.02 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674437764 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674437760 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 1996 |
| Series: |
Revealing Antiquity v. 8 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Translated from: |
Polish |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
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