Hypatia of Alexandria: Fact & FictionJohn Thorp (University of Western Ontario)
October 4, 2017, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Central, London Public Library
Stevenson & Hunt A, 1st floor
251 Dundas St
London N6A 6H9
Canada
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- Western University
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Hypatia is a beguiling figure in western intellectual history. A woman, famous as a mathematician and philosopher in a patriarchal age, martyred in 415 CE by a gang of Christian monks, she has, over the centuries, attracted treatment by fanciful novelists and pamphleteers, storytellers and filmmakers. We try to separate fact from fiction.
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