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^A – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Margaret Atherton's Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett; 1994. ISBN 0-87220-259-3 ^B – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jacqueline Broad's Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth ...
In ancient Western philosophy, while academic philosophy was typically the domain of male philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, female philosophers such as Hipparchia of Maroneia (active ca. 325 BC), Arete of Cyrene (active 5th–4th century BC) and Aspasia of Miletus (470–400 BC) were active during this period. Unfortunately, we don't ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Ancient Greek philosophers. It includes philosophers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Female philosophers from the time of Ancient Greece .
Hypatia's death sent shockwaves throughout the empire; [40] [111] for centuries, philosophers had been seen as effectively untouchable during the displays of public violence that sometimes occurred in Roman cities and the murder of a female philosopher at the hand of a mob was seen as "profoundly dangerous and destabilizing". [111]
It includes Ancient philosophers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Women in philosophy; Lists of philosophers; By century born; BC; 1st–10th; 11th–14th; 15th–16th; ... List of ancient Greek philosophers. List of ancient Platonists;
Greek Philosophers and Sophists in the Fourth century A.D. Studies in Eunapius of Sardis. Leeds, UK: Francis Cairns. Tanaseanu-Döbler, Ilinca. 2013. "Sosipatra – Role Models for “Divine” Women in Late Antiquity." In Divine Men and Women in the History and Society of Late Hellenism. Edited by Maria Dzielska and Kamilla Twardowska, 123–147.
Hipparchia's fame undoubtedly rests on the fact that she was a woman practising philosophy and living a life on equal terms with her husband. Both facts were unusual for ancient Greece or Rome. [10] Although there were other women who chose to live as Cynics, Hipparchia is the only one whose name is known. [17]