Now · Today: the Afterlives · 1853 CE

A story told by Charles Kingsley: his novel Hypatia

Legend · Told story

Charles Kingsley's novel Hypatia carries her legend to a wide Victorian readership.

What the evidence supports: A novel. Her life and death are known from Socrates, Synesius and Damascius.

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Sources
  • E. J. Watts, Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)