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.

Apr 15, 2025 · Hypatia (born c. 355 ce —died March 415, Alexandria) was a mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists.

Sep 2, 2009 · Hypatia of Alexandria was a Neo-Platonist philosopher who was murdered by a Christian mob in 415 CE. Her death is often cited as the end of the Classical Age and the beginning of the Christian Period.

Mar 14, 2010 · Hypatia was one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria and one of the first women to study and teach mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. Though she is remembered more for her violent...

Hypatia was a devotee of Neoplatonism – a mystical philosophy with one overriding theme: that everything in the universe has its origins in ‘the One’ – a transcendent god from which the Cosmic Soul and the Divine Mind come. A hydrometer floats in a …

Jun 20, 2021 · Hypatia is probably the most famous of the female philosophers from the ancient world, because of her shocking death. But how unusual was she? While Hypatia would most definitely have stood out as a novelty, she was not the only woman who taught philosophy under the Roman Empire.

Mar 1, 2025 · Hypatia, one of the greatest philosophers of Alexandria, was admired for her groundbreaking ideas but was brutally murdered for them by Christian fanatics in the fourth century AD.

Feb 25, 2021 · Born around 350 A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt, to a famous mathematician and philosopher, Hypatia had more freedom than many girls and women because of her respected father. Most women didn’t study...

Jan 7, 2025 · An accomplished mathematician and astronomer in ancient Egypt, Hypatia was attacked and stoned to death by a Christian mob in 415 C.E. How a Christian, misogynist system conspired to take down a pioneering female intellectual.

Mar 1, 2019 · Hypatia was a philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer who lived in a man’s world in 4th century Alexandria. Times were turbulent and the brutal and sudden end to Hypatia’s life shows just how difficult it was to be a great thinker in that period of history.