Caption: The imaginative portrait Hypatia by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815--1879). The model is Marie Spartali Stillman (1844--1927).
Hypatia (c.360--415 CE) is the most famous of the very few women philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers of Greco-Roman antiquity.
She was the daughter of the ancient Greek mathematician and ancient Greek astronomer Theon of Alexandria (c.335--c.405 CE).
Hypatia came very near the end of Greco-Roman antiquity: just before the Middle Ages in one periodization. In philosophy, perhaps one should date the final gasp of Greco-Roman antiquity with the death of Simplicius of Cilicia (c.490--c.560).
Hypatia has her own biopic: Agora (2009 film)---but it shows her as investigating heliocentrism---which she NEVER did in recorded history---but she might have in unrecorded history.
Credit/Permission:
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815--1879),
1867
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2010) /
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