Early Christian Women

ISBN-13: 9781009045889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 75 str.

Melbourne) Nor Dawn LaValle (Australian Catholic University

Opis

Were ancient women philosophers because they spoke like one or acted like one? For early Christians, it was both.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Lady Philosophy and Real Female Philosophers; 2. Thecla, 'second to none in philosophy and the liberal arts' (Meth. symp 8.170); 3. Macrina the Younger, 'who raised herself to the furthest limit of human virtue through philosophy' (Greg. Nyss. Vit Macr 1.27-29); 4. Monica, who 'grasped the very citadel of philosophy' (Aug. De Beat. Vit. 2.10); 5. Conclusion.