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Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our lives and projects our distinctive regional and ethnic identities to the world around us. Archaeology and architecture find common theoretical ground in their perspectives on the homes, spaces, and communities that people create for themselves. In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippian towns and mound centers of the eastern United States. The diverse Mississippian societies, which existed between A.D. 900 and 1700, created some of the largest and most complex Native American archaeological sites in the United States. The dominant architectural feature shared by these communities was one or more large plazas, each of which was often flanked by buildings set on platform mounds. ... Read more

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A suicide takes a detour through time, sendina a melancholy present-day cynic to ancientAlexandria to learn the secrets of life and happiness from history's greatest woman - the last, most brillian defender of life-loving shameless pagan Greek culture. ... Read more

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Don't Waste Your Time
Khan Amore's "Hypatia" is, in many ways, a rather tragic book. It represents a stunning failure of the publishing industry. This book gets my vote for the worst book ever published. Superficially, the book may be classified as a sci-fi historical novel. It is an historical novel because it is set, mainly, in fifth century Alexandria and its environs. It is science fiction because it involves time travel. However, the book consists, almost entirely, of a sequence of lengthy and detailed paedophile fantasies. These are interspersed by equally lengthy diatribes bemoaning, in the same tired, old ways, the evils of Christianity and, to a lesser degree, religion in general. Don't waste your time.

INCREDIBLE!
WOW! This novel is a work of artistic and intellectual achievement. Kudos to the author for unveiling the truths and setting our historical past in a more realistic context than the one we learned in school.

I have recently become aware of Hypatia and also wondered (as did Nikolai) why I had never heard of her. Makes me wonder how many other great women of the past are discarded to the winds of time, via "the victors who write history". I feel this novel has opened up spaces in my mind to allow some de-programming of our culture.

As more and more people wake up to the truths of the lies we've been taught, then our collective conscious can awaken to a new form of society, one based on love, kindness and intellectual seeking truth--what Hypatia taught the world.

A powerful, literate, shockingly frank page-turner
Violent religious bigotry takes it on the chin in this compelling historical science-fiction rendition of the story of the beautiful and brilliant Alexandrian Greek who some have called history's greatest woman. Past, present,and future collide in this lusty yet literate love story. True to life, all that's best in life appears side-by-side in this story with all that's worst, all told with brutal honesty. Khan Amore's lovingly-presented novel, Hypatia, is intimate, even scintillating, but its refusal to condemn permissive pre-Christian morals makes it such an iconoclastic statement in these repressive times that you may feel safer reading it in private. If you are someone who is capable of considering views that are out of keeping with currently-fashionable dogma, and prefer to take your truths uncut and without a sugar-coating, you'll be captivated, fortified, and maybe even uplifted by this book, although, no doubt, there are some that will be traumatized by the many secrets blithely told. If anyone has ever written a book like this before, I've certainly never come across it. A powerful, literate, shockingly frank page-turner. ... Read more

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Hypatia (370÷415 A.D.), heiress to the Alexandrian School, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and forerunner of experimental science, conceived of and constructed the astrolabe, the hydroscope and the aerometre. Adriano Petta and Antonino Colavito have written this book, consisting of two themes intertwined like a double helix, to honour the memory of Reason's first martyr, who preferred to be slaughtered rather than giving upher freedom of thought. The first focuses on Hypatia as a woman and describes her daily activities (private, scientific and political) in an accurately reconstructed historicalcontext, recounting a life that becomes more and more dramatic till brought to an end as described in a shattering epilogue. The second theme is the voice of Hypatia which, punctuating the first with episodes or 'dreams', describes her research work. It is through the latter that she teaches and communicates with those who listen to her, both academics and ordinary people, as a master of scientific knowledge the origins of which go back at least a thousand years before her time, and which the demise of the Hellenic world and the triumph of Christianity was to bury for many centuries, until the birth of modern science, from Galileo onwards. ... Read more

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It was in the illustrious city of Alexandria that the celebrated beauty Hypatia, (Hy-pa-sha) a Fifth Century “renaissance” woman lived her brief but brilliant life as a professor of philosophy, mathematics, chemistry and astronomy. Bishop Cyril despised Hypatia and ordered her brutal death. His army destroyed her manuscripts and inventions as Cyril attempted to erase her name from history. Her trusted scribe and lover, Ramas, however hid her secret scrolls in the ancient city of Petra.Her brilliance is stated in Carl Sagan’s #1 best seller, Cosmos, “The glory of the Alexandrian library is a dim memory. Its last remnants were destroyed soon after Hypatia’s death. ... Read more

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Amateurish Triumph
A powerful and disturbing story, much of which is vividly and powerfully told. This is a story well worth telling and here its shocking import is strongly shown. It's an absorbing read. Yes, it is very amateurish and needs a thorough editing. A lot of it reads like the product of a talented but raw student on a creative writing course. There are spelling errors, grammatical faults, wrong words used. Often, it reads like a rather rocky translation from another language. But I can't help loving its naive vivacity. Whatever you think of the fact that Hypatia is given a lover here, in the person of the fictional scribe Ramas, the depiction of the assassination is done very well indeed and is genuinely shocking. Though Bishop Cyril's nastiness assumes cartoonish proportions, there is an atmosphere of beauty and terror combined that keeps you reading. It really ought to have been worked on much more, but it's enjoyable nonetheless.

Errors, errors, and more errors.
I just browsed this book tonight.Other than wondering just how much we actually know about the person Hypatia, and just how the author knows that the basement of the Vatican contain a bunch of information about her, I suppose the story is engrossing enough.One minor nitpick, though--from the little that is known about Hypatia, it is frequently said that Hypatia had no interest in men, for whatever reason.However, the author portrays Hypatia as having had several lovers.Hmm.

Where this book REALLY falls down, however, is that it needs a thorough proofreading by someone who has a better grasp of spelling, grammar, and word usage.There are way too many errors in spelling, punctuation, and choice of words!The book is physically nice looking, but you open the inside and its production was just unprofessional.

I know that on the internet, people misspell stuff all the time and no one seems to care.But book publishing is a different world.Words mean things; it matters how you use language, and it matters whether you spell something correctly, because your typos may change the meaning of your text.

Advice to this author and to other self-published authors:Get someone to proofread your book--not an "English" teacher necessarily (they frequently can't spell)--but maybe someone who works in an occupation where they MUST spell, punctuate, and use words correctly.Maybe even someone who, like me, used to enter and win spelling bees, and who now works as a medical transcriptionist.

Hypatia's Earlier Incarnation by Charles Kingley
For those who find Kramer's work a bit thin, the early, weightier novel of the life and the period of this intriguing philosopher is worth a read in~ "HYPATIA" by Charles Kingley, circa 1900.

Hardly Historical
With a 15-year interest in Hypatia & Alexandria, I have read or skimmed most of the literature for general readers, and a little of the specialist literature (such as the 10th-century Suda, parts of which are available on-line).I got "Holy Murder" from my local library.A quick skim was enough.

With that preamble, let the reader beware:Holy Murder belongs in the Harlequin Romance section.Historical details are shaky, and the novelistic inventions are gratuitous - not consonant with what little we know of 5th-century Alexandria.If you're going to invent stuff, is it too much to ask that you do a little historical research before hand?Is it too much to ask that you at least be aware of Hypatia's proudest claim - life-long celibacy?Ramos - scribe & lover; good Gawd.

Readers wishing to know the historical Hypatia are encouraged first to spend some quality time w/ Maria Dzielka's "Hypatia of Alexandria."It's a bit dry, as all patient, scholarly works must be, but Patient Reader's efforts will be well rewarded.Among a great many things, the reader will discover Dzielka's strong case that Hypatia's murder was political, not religious, cutting the ground out, even, from under Kramer's title.

The only other fact-based work for the general reader that I'm aware of is Michael Deakin's "Hypatia - Mathematician & Martyr."His book overlaps Dzielka's a bit, but he also supplements it by providing a thorough analysis of Hypatia's mathematical contributions, which were significant (Mathophobics alert:It's not all that difficult).Before publishing his book, Deakin also maintained a web page of all the contemporary & quasi-contemporary sources (such as the Suda)on Hypatia.Would you be surprised that they can be listed on a single sheet?That's how little we really know - not so much as a scrap from Hypatia's own hand; almost all from her adoring pupil, Synesius of Cyrene (BUT: both Dzielska & Deakin make a good case that modern editions of Euclid's "Elements" are all direct descendents of Hypatia's edition, so her most important work lives on, in spite of all the romantic nonsense that clings barnacle-like to her name).

Call me a prematurely old fogey (all of 55!), but I find facts and history so much more interesting than romance.

Lots of fiction - little history
Be careful with this - the reader should know that this is fiction, though the description does not mention it. I was expecting a historical study of this amazing woman - this is a fictionalized and romanticized "historical" novel with no bibliography, index or footnotes. I cannot recommend it for someone interested in the real story of Hypatia. ... Read more

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From Preface:

"A picture of life in the fifth century must needs contain much which will be painful to any reader, and which the young and innocent will do well to leave altogether unread. It has to represent a very hideous, though a very great, age; one of those critical and cardinal eras in the history of the human race, in which virtues and vices manifest themselves side by side-even, at times, in the same person-with the most startling openness and power. One who writes of such an era labours under a troublesome disadvantage. He dare not tell how evil people were; he will not be believed if he tells how good they were. In the present case that disadvantage is doubled; for while the sins of the Church, however heinous, were still such as admit of being expressed in words, the sins of the heathen world, against which she fought, were utterly indescribable; and the Christian apologist is thus compelled, for the sake of decency, to state the Church's case far more weakly than the facts deserve.

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Classic historical novel set in fifth century Hellenic Egypt. According to Wikipedia: "Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was an English university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire... Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! led to the founding of a town by the same name - the only place name in England which contains an exclamation mark - and even inspired the construction of a railway, the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway. Few authors can have had such a significant effect upon the area which they eulogised." ... 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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Chapters: Augustine of Hippo, Septimius Severus, Athanasius of Alexandria, Hypatia, Tertullian, Cyril of Alexandria, Apuleius, Anthony the Great, Macrinus, Terence, Cyprian, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Sextus Julius Africanus, Synesius, Pope Alexander of Alexandria, Macarius of Egypt, Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Saint Monica, Flavius Cresconius Corippus, Saint Possidius, Publius Annius Florus, Aemilia Clara, Sextus Cornelius Repentinus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 184. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Augustine of Hippo (; Latin: ;) (November 13, 354 August 28, 430), Bishop of Hippo Regius, also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, or St. Austin was a Latin speaking philosopher and theologian living in the Roman Africa Province. Augustine, a Latin church father, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He "established anew the ancient faith" (conditor antiquae rursum fidei), according to his contemporary, Jerome. In his early years he was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterwards by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus, but after his conversion and baptism (387), he developed his own approach to philosophy and theology accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed that the grace of Christ was indispensable to human freedom and framed the concepts of original sin and just war. When the Roman Empire in the West was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Church as a spiritual City of God (in a book of the same name) distinct from the material Earthly City. His thought profoundly influenced the medieval worldview. Augustine's City of God was closely identified with the church, and was the community which worshipped God. Augustine was born in the city of Thagaste, th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2030 ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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T036382

With a half-title.

London : printed for T. Bickerton, 1721. [4],35,[1]p. ; 8° ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... 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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Chapters: Hypatia, Aspasia, Hipparchia of Maroneia, Aesara, Diotima of Mantinea, Theano, Leontion, Phintys, Sosipatra, Arete of Cyrene, Myia, Perictione, Aedesia, Arignote, Batis of Lampsacus, Asclepigenia, Aristoclea, Timycha, Axiothea of Phlius, Damo, Lastheneia of Mantinea, Themista of Lampsacus, Nicarete of Megara. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 85. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aspasia (ca. 470 BC ca. 400 BC, Greek: ) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles. Very little is known about the details of her life. She spent most of her adult life in Athens, and she may have influenced Pericles and Athenian politics. She is mentioned in the writings of Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and other authors of the day. Ancient writers also reported that Aspasia was a brothel keeper and a harlot, although these accounts are disputed by modern scholars, on the grounds that many of the writers were comic poets concerned with defaming Pericles. Some researchers question even the historical tradition that she was a hetaera, or courtesan, and have suggested that she may actually have been married to Pericles. Aspasia had a son by Pericles, Pericles the Younger, who later became a general in the Athenian military and was executed after the Battle of Arginusae. She is believed to have become the courtesan of Lysicles, another Athenian statesman and general, following the death of Pericles the Elder. Aspasia was born in the Ionian Greek city of Miletus (in the modern province of Aydn, Turkey). Little is known about her family except that her father's name was Axiochus, although it is evident that she must have belonged to a wealthy family, for only the well-to-do could have afforded the excellent education that she received. Some ancient sou...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=231443 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ada Lovelace, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Grace Hopper, Hypatia, Emmy Noether, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Karen Vogtmann, Émilie Du Châtelet, Hilda Geiringer, Olga Arsenievna Oleinik, Juana Inés de La Cruz, Ingrid Daubechies, Julia Robinson, Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Anna Nagurney, Mary Somerville, Audrey Terras, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Mary Cartwright, Maria Klawe, Judith Roitman, Marjorie Lee Browne, Katia Sycara, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Etta Zuber Falconer, Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Zoia Ceauşescu, Maryam Mirzakhani, Ruth Aaronson Bari, Gertrude Mary Cox, Helena Rasiowa, Theano, Karen Uhlenbeck, Hertha Marks Ayrton, Ruth Lawrence, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Alice T. Schafer, Cecilia Krieger, List of Female Mathematicians, Sofya Yanovskaya, Evelyn Nelson, Gertrude Blanch, Hanna Neumann, Krystyna Kuperberg, Maria Chudnovsky, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Fan Chung, Philippa Fawcett, Diane Souvaine, Raman Parimala, Agnes Sime Baxter, Melanie Wood, Lenore Blum, Nan Laird, Sheila Scott Macintyre, Charlotte Scott, Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, Hu Hesheng, Mary Ellen Rudin, Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Chuu-Lian Terng, Daina Taimina, Alicia Boole Stott, Mary Celine Fasenmyer, Idun Reiten, Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, Ida Rhodes, Karin Erdmann, Mary P. Dolciani, Bhama Srinivasan, Cheryl Praeger, Association for Women in Mathematics, Frances Kirwan, Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Sarah Flannery, Olga Taussky-Todd, Marianna Csörnyei, Ruth Moufang, Grete Hermann, Elizaveta Litvinova, Carol Karp, Joan Birman, Vera Kublanovskaya, Elizabeth Scott, Jessie Macwilliams, Nina Snaith, Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, Dusa Mcduff, Esther Szekeres, Mary W. Gray, Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, Susan Howson, Mary Everest Boole, Käte Fenchel, Judy A. Holdener, Katrin Wehrheim, Marjorie Rice, Grace Chisholm Youn...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=149896 ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict.
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T053957

Anonymous. By John Toland.

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