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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 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.
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.
[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]
Hypatia by Charles Kingsley; Hypatia, a character based on Hypatia of Alexandria in the series The Heirs of Alexandria by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Dave Freer; Hypatia, a character based on Hypatia of Alexandria in the novel Baudolino by Umberto Eco; Hypatia, the main character in the 2009 film Agora, played by Rachel Weisz
Hypatia. Die spätantiken Quellen. Eingeleitet, kommentiert und interpretiert: Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (born 1955) is a professor and head of the department of ...
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