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Reading HYPATIA right now. 

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Hypatia: Why she kicks ass

She was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, teacher, editor, musician, author and philosopher in Roman Egypt who was the first historically noted woman in mathematics, and head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, where she also taught philosophy and astronomy.

She edited a number of works in collaboration with her father, the mathematician Theon; last director of the Museion that was the center of scholarship in the classical world.  Among them were a commentary on the 13-volume Arithmetica by Diophantus, which plays a role in the novel. She also edited Theon’s commentary on Euclid’s Elements, which was likely the basis for every geometry text for the next fifteen centuries.

Students from wealthy and influential families in Egypt, Syria, Cyrene, and Constantinople came to Alexandria to study privately with her. Many of them later attained high posts in government and the Church.

A story told by Damascius in the Suda reflects a likely picture of her attitude toward romantic love. When accosted by a young man who professed his love for her, Hypatia showed him her bloody menstrual rags and told him it was the body he loved and he did not “love beauty for its own sake.” The young man fled. 

Hypatia tried to mediate a conflict between the new Patriarch Cyril and the new Imperial Prefect Orestes but she sided with traditional Greek values-discourse over violence, tolerance over bigotry, secular authority over religious authority. Cyril and his followers felt she favored Orestes in the conflict and feared a Prefect backed by a respected citizen with considerable authority, extensive influence, and the courage of her convictions. These convictions lead to Cyril and his followers skillfully spread rumors that Hypatia studied magic and had cast a satanic spell on the Prefect, “God’s people,” and the entire city. Eventually a churchman, leading a superstitious mob, grabbed Hypatia out of her chariot when she was on her way to a public lecture in March 415, and they brutally murdered her, hacking her body apart inside a church and burning the pieces outside the city walls.

All Hypatia’s work is lost except for its titles and some references to it. However no purely philosophical work is known, only work in mathematics and astronomy. Based on this small amount of evidence remaining, it has been concluded that Hypatia was an excellent compiler, editor, and preserver of earlier mathematical works.

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thephotographyscrapbook-xo: ✿ ~ Oodles of prettiness here ~ ✿

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"The four-part cure," is the Greek philosopher Epicurus' recipe for leading the happiest possible life... originally a compound of four drugs (wax, tallow, pitch and resin); the word has been used metaphorically by Epicurus and his disciples to refer to the four remedies for healing the soul.

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure (Philodemus, Herculaneum Papyrus, 1005, 4.9–14).[2]

In the original Greek:

Ἄφοβον ὁ θεός, ἀνύποπτον ὁ θάνατος καὶ τἀγαθὸν μὲν εὔκτητον, τὸ δὲ δεινὸν εὐεκκαρτέρητον (Philodemus, Herculaneum Papyrus, 1005, 4.9–14)

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Any life expands and flowers only through division and contradiction. What are reason and sobriety without the knowledge of intoxication? What is sensuality without death standing behind it? What is love without the eternal mortal enmity of the sexes?

- Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse  (via dostoevskyanddebauchery)

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