Ancient · c. 350–280 BC
Who influenced Hipparchia?
Influences
Married into Cynicism, debated philosophers in public, and refused every convention open to women.
Hipparchia was influenced by Crates of Thebes. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Hipparchia?
Hipparchia of Maroneia moved with her family to Athens, where she fell in love with Crates of Thebes, the most famous Cynic of the day, and married him against her parents' wishes. Together they lived in Cynic poverty on the streets of Athens.
Little of her own philosophy survives. Her influence lies in the example of her life, a way of living thought improper for a respectable woman, and her story became a favourite theme of later writers.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Hipparchia?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Crates of Thebes c. 365–285 BC
The line of teachers behind Hipparchia
The longest documented line of influence ending at Hipparchia runs 7 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Hipparchia
Indirect influences
- Through Crates of Thebes: Diogenes of Sinope
Contemporaries of Hipparchia
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Hipparchia, with no direct line between them.
- Epicurus 341–270 BC
- Pyrrho c. 360–270 BC
- Zeno of Citium c. 334–262 BC
- Zhuangzi c. 369–286 BC
- Cleanthes c. 330–230 BC
- Theophrastus c. 371–287 BC
- Mencius c. 372–289 BC
Hipparchia by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 9
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 33 — #50 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Hipparchia
- Who influenced Hipparchia?
- Crates of Thebes.
- Who did Hipparchia influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Hipparchia.
- When did Hipparchia live?
- c. 350–280 BC. The map files Hipparchia under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Hipparchia card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Hipparchia in 33 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More ancient philosophers
- Confucius 551–479 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
- Cicero 106–43 BC
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC