Hypatia: The True Story [2nd Rev. ed.] 9783111245539, 9783111245751, 9783111245812, 3111245535

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Hypatia: The True Story [2nd Rev. ed.]
9783111245539, 9783111245751, 9783111245812, 3111245535

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Silvia Ronchey

Table of contents :
Author’s Note
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Setting out the Facts
1 Once there was a Woman
2 The Destruction of the Serapeum
3 Elegant Insolence
4 The Terrible Patriarch of Alexandria
5 Good Use of Power
6 Treacherous Zeal
The Bishop of Nikiu
8 A Three-Handed Game
9 The Intimidation of Orestes
10 Mortal Envy
11 The Cover-Up
Part II: Betraying the Facts
12 The Glory of Her Own Sex and the Wonder of Ours
13 The Excesses of Fanaticism
14 A Very Beautiful and Well-educated Woman is Torn Asunder
15 From Fielding to Gibbon Passing Through the Shadow of a Donkey
16 The Catholic Wing
17 Refreshing Exceptions
18 Uncontrolled Effects on the Poets
19 New Faces For Old Foes
20 Kulturkampf. Hypatia à la Bismarck
21 Celestial Virgin
22 Miraculous Devotion. Chateaubriand, Péguy and the Flourishing of Feminist Literature
23 Superfluous Heroisms
24 The Forces of the Universe
25 A Name, a Mantra
Part III: Interpreting the Facts
26 May the Witnesses Return to the Court
27 The DNA of the Ancient Tradition
28 Church and State
29 An Age of Anxiety
30 Hypatia in All Her States of Being
31 What Did Hypatia Teach?
32 All Synesius’ Mysteries
33 Synesius, Hypatia and Philosophia
34 Women Who Philosophised
35 The Power of Hypatia
36 Dramatis Personae
37 Hypatia’s Sacrifice
38 The Martyrdom of Hypatia
39 A Question of Method
40 The Eminence of Hypatia
Aftershock: And What If…
Bibliography
Index of Names

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