Hypatia of Alexandria: Her Context and Legacy

by: Lavalle Norman, d. Petkas, A.

Hypatia of Alexandria
Her Context and Legacy
Ed. by Dawn LaValle Norman and Alex Petkas
[Hypatia von Alexandria. Ihr Kontext und ihr Vermächtnis.]
2020. XIV, 343 Seiten.
Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 119

Veröffentlicht auf Englisch.
Hypatia von Alexandria gilt als inspirierende Lehrerin, als hingebungsvolle Heidin und bedeutende Mathematikerin. Doch war es ihr grausamer Tod im Jahr 415, durch welchen sie anhaltende Berühmtheit erlangte. Dieser Band enthält elf erstmals veröffentlichte Beiträge, sowie neue Übersetzungen aller Primärquellen zu Hypatia.
Inhaltsübersicht
Dawn LaValle Norman/Alex Petkas: Introduction: The Timeliness of Hypatia

Hypatia and Synesius
Alex Petkas: Hypatia and the Desert: A Late Antique Defense of Classicism – Helmut Seng: Desire and Despair: Synesius, Hypatia, and No Consolation of Philosophy – Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer: Synesius' Letters to Hypatia: On the »End« of a Philosopher-Friendship and its Timelessness

Hypatia in Context
Walter F. Beers: Bloody Iuvenalia: Hypatia, Pulcheria Augusta, and the Beginnings of Cyril of Alexandria's Episcopate – Mareile Haase: The Shattered Icon: An Alternative Reading of Hypatia's Killing – David Frankfurter: The Private Devotions of Intellectual Hellenes – Sebastian Gertz: 'A Mere Geometer?' Hypatia in the Context of Alexandrian Neoplatonism

Hypatia in her Ancient and Modern Reception
Joshua Fincher: Hypatia's Sisters? Gender and the Triumph of Knowledge in Nonnus' Dionysiaca – Victoria Leonard: The Ideal (Bleeding?) Female: Hypatia of Alexandria and Distorting Patriarchal Narratives – Edward Watts: Hypatia and her Eighteenth-Century Reception – Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle: Starring Hypatia: Amenábar's Agora and the Tropology of Reception

Dawn LaValle Norman/Alex Petkas: Appendix A: Translation of Primary Sources on Hypatia – Mareile Haase: Appendix B: Hypatia's Death According to Socrates, Hist. eccl. 7.15: A Textual Commentary

Dawn LaValle Norman Born 1983; 2015 PhD in Classics and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University; Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry in Melbourne.

Alex Petkas Born 1984; 2019 PhD in Classics at Princeton University; Assistant Professor of Classics at California State University, Fresno.

Hypatia of Alexandria: Her Context and Legacy

by: Lavalle Norman, d. Petkas, A.

• ISBN-13: 9783161549694 / 978-3-16-154969-4
• ISBN-03: 3161549694 / 3-16-154969-4
• Mohr Siebeck, Tubingen, 2020