edythofhastings:History Meme: List of Favorite Women throughout History– Hypatia of Alexandria (360A
edythofhastings:History Meme: List of Favorite Women throughout History– Hypatia of Alexandria (360AD-415AD)“Hypatia stands at the threshold of those philosophic-religious development of the 5th century that greatly attract today’s scholars of late antiquity. The intellectual circle created by her in the 4th century, consisting of the inspired teacher and her disciples, had in common the same fundamental goal that guided the “holy men” of Alexandrian Neoplatonism in the next century: the consistent aspiration to achieve religious experience as the ideal philosophy.”Hypatia of Alexandria by Maria Dzielska -- source link
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