Pack Thinkers

Medieval · c. 355–415

Who did Hypatia influence?

Students and legacy

Alexandria's Neoplatonist mathematician — lynched by a mob, immortal as a martyr of learning.

Hypatia influenced Synesius of Cyrene. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Hypatia?

Hypatia was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer and mathematician in Roman Alexandria, where she taught philosophy and astronomy and was known as a great teacher and counsellor. She is the first woman mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. She wrote a commentary on Diophantus's Arithmetica, which may survive in part, and one on Apollonius's Conics, which does not; she may also have edited the surviving text of Ptolemy's Almagest.

She taught many Christians, among them Synesius, later a bishop, and was respected by pagans and Christians alike. She advised the prefect Orestes during his feud with Bishop Cyril, Rumours spread that she was keeping them from reconciling, and in March 415 a Christian mob led by a lector named Peter murdered her. Later ages made her in turn a martyr for philosophy, a symbol against the Church and an icon of women's rights.

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Who did Hypatia influence?

1 thinker on this map draws directly on Hypatia.

Contemporaries of Hypatia

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Hypatia, with no direct line between them.

Hypatia by the numbers

Direct influences
0
Direct followers
1
Thinkers upstream
0
Thinkers downstream
1
Wikipedia languages
100 — #8 of 58 among medieval philosophers
Card rarity
Legendary

Questions about Hypatia

Who influenced Hypatia?
No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Hypatia.
Who did Hypatia influence?
Synesius of Cyrene.
When did Hypatia live?
c. 355–415. The map files Hypatia under the medieval period.
How rare is the Hypatia card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Hypatia in 100 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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