Hypatia of Alexandria

Selected as the Librarians' Site du Jour for May 6, 1998

Resources at this site

• The very large Hypatia Book List
• Dr. M. A. B. Deakin's "The Primary Sources for the Life and Work of Hypatia of Alexandria"
  The best place to start if you want to know what we really know about Hypatia, as opposed to the reams of fictionalized accounts of her life.
• "The History Of Hypatia", Thomas Lewis, 1721
  A partial transcription of a very rare book (I only know of 3 copies in the world). It was written as a reply to John Toland's book of the previous year, and consists mostly of spleen and invective.
• "Hypatia, or, New Foes with an Old Face", Charles Kingsley, 1907 edition
  NEW! A partial transcription of Kingsley's 1853 novel.
• "Hypatia", Elbert Hubbard, 1928 edition
  A complete transcription of Hubbard's essay of circa 1908, taken from the 1928 edition printed after his death.
• "The martyrdom of Hypatia, or, The death of the classical world", Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian, circa 1915

Resources at other sites

• Classroom Activities on Hypatia
• Alexandria magazine
  • The Life of Hypatia from The Suda
  • The Life of Hypatia by Socrates Scholasticus
  • The Life of Hypatia by John, Bishop of Nikiu
• Michael A. B. Deakin's review of Dzielska's book
• Hagith S. Sivan's review of Dzielska's book, also available here.
• biography at St. Andrews
  A lot of information with further links.
• biography at etext.org
• Kapatel Hypatia page (mostly in Greek - summary in English).
• Hypatia, The Lady Philosopher of Alexandria by Faith L. Justice
• Hypatia
  Just a paragraph or two.
• Hypatia
  Doesn't have any references that aren't found here.
• The Library at Alexandria
  Not much on Hypatia, but a lot of good general background material, well-organized with many links to other places.
• Saint Cyril I: The Pillar of the Faith gives a thoroughly adulatory version of Cyril's life, and attributes Hypatia's murder to "the crowd".
• a brief biography with a few references.
• a short biography with purported quotes.
• a twisted biography from the Hypatia's Web site.
• a bio from Hong Kong
• a brief biography.
• a purported quote.
• Peter Alfeld's Hypatia page.
• Hypatia crater info.

The following links once worked, but may now be dead:

• Ellen Brundige, "The Decline of the Library and Museum of Alexandria"
• The Ptolemaic Legacy
• a short bio from umd.edu.
• an odd email which seems to claim that Hypatia and Diogenes had a son named Deleuze.

• John Servais 2 Feb 1996
• Timothy M. Teeter 2 Feb 1996
• John Servais 2 Feb 1996
• Ted Mayes 3 Feb 1996
• Richard Landes 4 Feb 1996
• Ted Mayes 4 Feb 1996
• Serge Pahaut 4 Feb 1996
• P.D. Snider 4 Feb 1996
• Richard Landes 5 Feb 1996
• Yves Caseau 5 Feb 1996
• Timothy M. Teeter 5 Feb 1996
• B. Bachrach 6 Feb 1996
• Greg Rose 6 Feb 1996

Other sources about the struggle between science and "revealed" religion.

• A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (link appears to be broken at the moment)
• John J. Kessler, Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher (available as BRUNO.TXT on The Skeptic Tank) Actually, there's lots on Bruno available - just do a search on any decent search engine.