Book
Hypatia : the life and legend of an ancient philosopher / Edward J. Watts.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780190073701 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xii, 205 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in hardcover: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A Lenten murder -- Alexandria -- Childhood and education -- The school of Hypatia -- Middle age -- A philosophical mother and her children -- The public intellectual -- Hypatia's sisters -- Murder in the street -- The memory of Hypatia -- A modern symbol -- Reconsidering a legend. |
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| Subject: | Hypatia, -415. Women philosophers > Egypt > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 186.4 Hypat-W | 31681010353993 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
The Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, Edward Watts studies the intellectual and religious history of the later Roman and early Byzantine Empires. He is the author of three prize-winning books and the editor of three edited volumes. This is his first of two upcoming works for OUP.
