Hypatia of Alexandria

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

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