Hypatia II

Continued from Part I

The Mean Streets of Old Alexandria: Part II
When Hypatia Was a Little Girl

AD 355.  Sometime around AD 355, one year after Augustine of Hippo was born, the well-known mathematician and astrologer, Theon of Alexandria, begat a daughter whom he named Hypatia.  She was to mature into a mathematician and astrologer in her own right, but also a Neoplatonist philosopher of no small repute, one of a small band of female philosophers that graced that period of history in...