Hypatia of Alexandria

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Hypatia of Alexandria

By Cara Minardi

Paper given at the Graduate English Association New Voices Conference (2008)

Introduction: The forthcoming text entitled The Present State of Scholarship in Historical Rhetoric edited by Lynée Lewis Gaillet... [continue reading]

Posted by historyoftheancientworld.com on March 23, 2012, 17:07.

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