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On a November night in Egypt, 414 A.D., one of history's most brilliant individuals was assassinated. Her name was Hypatia, teacher and scientist at the fabled Great Library of Alexandria and the last glimmer of hope before the Dark Ages.

The Roman Empire is crumbling, the fragments of the classical world regrouping in Egypt when Thasos, son of an ill-fated scholar, meets Hypatia of Alexandria. Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher at a time when women were shunned from learning, Hypatia is a daring visionary in a world about to change forever.

As an insidious power-struggle erupts between church and state Hypatia finds herself at the forefront of battle, but she is not alone. Those who cherish her, who will remember her, become her allies – including the powerful Governor Orestes, who keeps his consuming love for her as secret as she keeps her feelings for him.

Lady Philosopher: The Story of Hypatia is a vivid retelling of a now-forgotten historical tragedy, when courage stood against fear, when the legacy of the wise vanished in the dark. Author Brian Trent resurrects the ancient world's most famous metropolis and explores the final days, not just of a brilliant mind, but of a lost era.

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A Wonderful Novel about Hypatia of Alexandria
One of the most heartfelt and informative historical novels I've read, and about a little-known time-period to boot! Clever characterizations with great chemistry, and a sense of loss and tragedy that the author conveys with lyrical skill. Truly a great novel.

Same book - different title.
This is the same book that he published 5 years ago with the title Remembering Hypatia: A Novel of Ancient Egypt.
I was not pleased and feel that I was misled by the change in title, publisher and publication date.I believed it was a further exploration into the philosophy of Hypatia.

While the book is good, under either title, it is definitely not worth $25 to reread the same text with a few editing changes.Can someone enlighten me?Why was this done and is it done by other authors and novels?

Luckily Amazon was quite willing to have the book returned with a full refund! ... Read more

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On a November night in Egypt, 414 A.D., one of history's most brilliant individuals was assassinated. Her name was Hypatia, teacher and scientist of the fabled Great Library of Alexandria and the last glimmer of hope before the Dark Ages.

The Roman Empire is crumbling, the fragments of the classical world regrouping in Egypt when Thasos, son of an ill-fated scholar, meets Hypatia of Alexandria. Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher at a time when women were shunned from learning, Hypatia is a daring visionary in a world about to change forever.

As an insidious power-struggle erupts between church and state Hypatia finds herself at the forefront of battle, but she is not alone. Those who cherish her, who will remember her, become her allies – including the powerful Governor Orestes, who keeps his consuming love for her as secret as she keeps her feelings from him.

Remembering Hypatia is a vivid retelling of a now-forgotten historical tragedy, when courage stood against fear, when the legacy of the wise vanished in the dark. Author Brian Trent resurrects the ancient world's most famous metropolis and explores the final days, not just of a brilliant mind, but of a lost era. . .

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Interesting and Thought Provoking
I enjoyed reading this book as it gave a glimpse of real life in Alexandria.Hypatia is an educated woman who dared to speak about science is an age when everything was left up to the gods.She was considered a witch because she thought the earth was round.This book tells about the months leading up to the burning of the Great Library in Alexandria.Very interesting. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hypatia, Julian the Apostate, Gregory of Nazianzus, Libanius, Ammonius Hermiae, Hierocles of Alexandria, Eunapius, Basil of Caesarea, Himerius, Olympiodorus of Thebes, Asclepiodotus of Alexandria, Aedesia, Hermias, Heliodorus of Alexandria. Excerpt:Aedesia (Greek Greek : ) was a female philosopher of the Neoplatonic school who lived in Alexandria in the fifth century. She was a relation of Syrianus and the wife of Hermias , and was equally celebrated for her beauty and her virtues. After the death of her husband, she devoted herself to relieving the wants of the distressed and the education of her children, Ammonius and Heliodorus . She accompanied the latter to Athens , where they went to study philosophy, and was received with great distinction by all the philosophers there, and especially by Proclus , to whom she had been betrothed by Syrianus, when she was quite young. She lived to a considerable age, and her funeral oration was pronounced by Damascius , who was then a young man, in hexameter verses. Notes References (URLs online) This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870). A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Ammonius Hermiae (Greek : ; c. 440-c. 520) was a Greek philosopher , and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias and Aedesia . He was a pupil of Proclus in Athens , and taught at Alexandria for most of his life, writing commentaries on Plato , Aristotle , and other philosophers. Life Ammonius' father, Hermias , died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus , in Alexandria . When they reached adulthood, Aedesia accompanied her sons to Athens where they studied under Proclus . Eventually, they returned to Alexandria, where... ... Read more

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British Library

T053957

Anonymous. By John Toland.

London : printed for M. Cooper; W. Reeve; and C. Sympson, 1753. 36p.,plate ; 8° ... Read more