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See also:HYPATIA ('Tiraria) (c. A.D. 370–415)
mathematician and philosopher, See also:born in See also:Alexandria, was the daughter of See also:Theon, also a mathematician and philosopher, author of scholia on See also:Euclid and a commentary on the Almagest, in which it is suggested that he was assisted by See also:Hypatia (on the 3rd See also:book)
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After lecturing in her native See also:city, Hypatia ultimately became the recognized See also:head of the Neoplatonic school there (c
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400)
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Her See also:great eloquence and rare modesty and beauty, combined with her remarkable intellectual gifts, attracted to her class-See also:room a large number of pupils
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Among these was See also:Synesius, afterwards (c
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41o) See also:bishop of Ptolemais, several of whose letters to her, full of chivalrous admiration and reverence, are still extant
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Suidas, misled by an incomplete excerpt in See also:Photius from the See also:life of Isidorus (the Neoplatonist) by See also:Damascius. states that Hypatia
was the wife of Isidorus; but this is chronologically impossible, since Isidorus could not have been born before 434 (see See also:Hoche in Philologus)
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Shortly after the See also:accession of See also:Cyril to the See also:patriarch-See also:ate of Alexandria in 412, owing to her intimacy with See also:Orestes, the See also:pagan See also:prefect of the city, Hypatia was barbarously murdered by the Nitrian monks and the fanatical See also:Christian See also:mob (See also: Little is known of her philosophical opinions, but she appears to have embraced the intellectual rather than the mystical See also:side of See also:Neoplatonism, and to have been a follower of See also:Plotinus rather than of See also:Porphyry and See also:Iamblichus . See also:Zeller, however, in his Outlines of See also:Greek See also:Philosophy (1886, Eng. trans. p . 347), states that " she appears to have taught the Neoplatonic See also:doctrine in the See also:form in which Iamblichus had stated it." A Latin See also:letter to Cyril on behalf of See also:Nestorius, printed in the Collectio nova conciliorum, i . (1623), by Stephanus Baluzius (See also:Etienne Baluzs, q.v.), and sometimes attributed to her, is undoubtedly See also:spurious . The See also:story of Hypatia appears in a considerably disguised yet still recognizable form in the See also:legend of St See also:Catherine as recorded in the See also:Roman See also:Breviary (See also:November 25), and still more fully in the Martyrologies (see A.B . See also:Jameson, Sacred and Legendary See also:Art (1867) U . 467 . The See also:chief source for the little we know about Hypatia is the See also:account given by Socrates (Hist. ecclesiastica, vii . 15) . She is the subject of an See also:epigram by Palladas in the Greek See also:Anthology (ix . 400) . See l abricius, Bibliotheca Graeca (ed .
Harles), ix
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187; See also:
230; Wetzer and Welte, Kirchenlexikon, vi
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(1889), from a See also:Catholic standpoint
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The story of Hypatia also forms the basis of the well-known See also:historical See also:romance by See also: |
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