The Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Chair and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, Edward Watts studies the intellectual and religious history of the later Roman and early Byzantine Empires. He is the author of three prize-winning books and the editor of three edited volumes. This is his first of two upcoming works for OUP.

• Table of ContentsList of figures Introduction: A Lenten Murder Chapter 1: Alexandria Chapter 2: Childhood and Education Chapter 3: The School of Hypatia Chapter 4: Middle Age Chapter 5: A Philosophical Mother and her Children Chapter 6: The Public Intellectual Chapter 7: Hypatia's Sisters Chapter 8: Murder in the Street Chapter 9: The Memory of Hypatia Chapter 10: A Modern Symbol Reconsidering A Legend Bibliography

The book is written in a readable style, without sacrificing rigor or intellectual transparency. The research is thorough. References and details are put in end notes ordered by chapter, easily accessible to the interested reader without disturbing the text ow. I can recommend this book to university students as well as to the general reader interested in late Roman philosophy or in the life of one of the few known female philosophers from before modern times.