Hypatia : : The True Story / / Silvia Ronchey.
This study reconstructs Hypatia’s existential and intellectual life and her modern Nachleben through a reception-oriented and interdisciplinary approach. Unlike previous publications on the subject, Hypatia explores all available ancient and medieval sources as well as the history of the reception o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Note of the Author
- 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
- 7 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 Force 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