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Hypatia [a] (born c. 350–370 - March 415 AD) [1] [4] was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt: at that time a major city of the Eastern Roman Empire. In Alexandria, Hypatia was a prominent thinker who taught subjects including philosophy and astronomy.
Hypatia is a feminine given name of Ancient Greek origin derived from the word hypatos (): (ὕπατος), meaning highest, supreme. It is often given in reference to Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 350 to 370-415), the Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician.
Hypatia was later implicated in a political feud between Orestes, the Roman prefect of Alexandria, and Cyril of Alexandria, Theophilus' successor as bishop. [ 125 ] [ 126 ] Rumors spread accusing her of preventing Orestes from reconciling with Cyril [ 125 ] [ 127 ] and, in March of 415 AD, she was murdered by a mob of Christians, led by a ...
Hypatia by Charles William Mitchell (1885) Charles William Mitchell (1854–1903) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter from Newcastle.A contemporary of John William Waterhouse, his work is similar in many ways.
Agora (Spanish: Ágora) is a 2009 English-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Alejandro Amenábar and written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil.The biopic stars Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer in late 4th-century Roman Egypt, who investigates the flaws of the geocentric Ptolemaic system and the heliocentric model that challenges it.
Theon of Alexandria (/ ˌ θ iː ə n,-ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Θέων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; c. AD 335 – c. 405) was a Greek [1] scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's Elements and wrote commentaries on works by Euclid and Ptolemy. His daughter Hypatia also won fame as a mathematician.
While still a youth (in 393), he went with his brother Euoptius to Alexandria, where he became an enthusiastic Neoplatonist and disciple of Hypatia. Between 395 and 399, he spent some time in Athens. [2] In 398 he was chosen as an envoy to the imperial court in Constantinople by Cyrene and the whole Pentapolis. [3]
[43] Scholasticus, alleges that Hypatia fell "victim to the political jealousy which at the time prevailed" and that news of Hypatia's murder, "brought no small disgrace", not only to Patriarch Cyril but to the whole Christian Church in Alexandria, "for murder and slaughter and all such things are altogether opposed to the Christian religion." [44]