Editing Hypatia (section)

===Middle Ages===
[[File:Icon of Saint Catherine.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Icon of [[Catherine of Alexandria|Saint Catherine of Alexandria]] from [[Saint Catherine's Monastery]] in [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]], Egypt. The legend of Saint Catherine is thought to have been at least partially inspired by Hypatia.{{sfn|Deakin|2007|pages=135–136}}{{sfn|Walsh|2007|page=10}}{{sfn|Booth|2017|page=152}}]]

Hypatia's death was similar to those of [[Christian martyrs]] in Alexandria, who had been dragged through the streets during the [[Decian persecution]] in 250.{{sfn|Dzielska|2008|page=141}}{{sfn|Walsh|2007|page=11}}{{sfn|Booth|2017|page=150}} Other aspects of Hypatia's life also fit the mold for a Christian martyr, especially her lifelong virginity.{{sfn|Deakin|2007|pages=135–136}}{{sfn|Walsh|2007|pages=10–11}} In the [[Early Middle Ages]], Christians conflated Hypatia's death with stories of the Decian martyrs{{sfn|Deakin|2007|pages=135–136}}{{sfn|Walsh|2007|pages=10–11}} and she became part of the basis for the legend of [[Saint Catherine of Alexandria]], a virgin martyr said to have been exceedingly wise and well-educated.{{sfn|Deakin|2007|pages=135–136}}{{sfn|Walsh|2007|page=10}}{{sfn|Booth|2017|page=152}} The earliest attestation for the cult of Saint Catherine comes from the eighth century, around three hundred years after Hypatia's death.{{sfn|Walsh|2007|page=34}} One story tells of Saint Catherine being confronted by fifty pagan philosophers seeking to convert her,{{sfn|Booth|2017|page=152}}{{sfn|Deakin|2007|page=135}} but instead converting all of them to Christianity through her eloquence.{{sfn|Deakin|2007|pages=135–136}}{{sfn|Booth|2017|page=152}} Another legend put forth that Saint Catherine had been a student of [[Athanasius of Alexandria]].{{sfn|Walsh|2007|page=11}} In the Laodikeia of Asia Minor (today [[Denizli]] in Turkey) until late 19th century Hypatia was venerated as identical to St. Catherine.<ref>[http://epub.lib.uoa.gr/index.php/epetirisphil/article/view/881 Espetsieris K., "Icons of Greek philosophs in Churches", ("Εσπετσιέρης Κ., "Εικόνες Ελλήνων φιλοσόφων εις Εκκλησίας”), Επιστ. Επετηρίς Φιλοσοφ. Σχολ. Παν/μίου Αθηνών 14 (1963-64), pp. 391, 441 – 443] In Greek.</ref><ref>[http://epub.lib.uoa.gr/index.php/epetirisphil/article/view/1084 Espetsieris K., "Icons of Greek philosophs in Churches. Complementary information." (Εσπετσιέρης Κ., "Εικόνες Ελλήνων φιλοσόφων εις Εκκλησίας). Συμπληρωματικά στοιχεία”, Επιστ. Επετηρίς Φιλοσοφ. Σχολ. Παν/μίου Αθηνών 24 (1973-74), pp. 418-421] In Greek.</ref>

The Byzantine ''Suda'' encyclopedia contains a very long entry about Hypatia, which summarizes two different accounts of her life.{{sfn|Watts|2017|pages=128–129}} The first eleven lines come from one source and the rest of the entry comes from Damascius's ''Life of Isidore''. Most of the first eleven lines of the entry probably come from [[Hesychius of Miletus|Hesychius]]'s ''Onomatologos'',{{sfn|Watts|2017|page=129}} but some parts are of unknown origin, including a statement that she was "the wife of Isidore the Philosopher" (apparently [[Isidore of Alexandria]]).<ref name="suda">{{citation|url=http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?db=REAL&search_method=QUERY&login=guest&enlogin=guest&user_list=LIST&page_num=1&searchstr=Hypatia&field=hw_eng&num_per_page=100|title=Suda online, Upsilon 166|website=www.stoa.org}}</ref>{{sfn|Watts|2017|page=129}}{{sfn|Booth|2017|page=130}} Watts describes this as puzzling, not only because Isidore of Alexandria was not born until long after Hypatia's death, and no other philosopher of that name contemporary with Hypatia is known,{{sfn|Watts|2017|pages=129–130}}{{sfn|Booth|2017|pages=130–131}}<ref>"Isidorus 1" entry in John Robert Martindale, (1980), ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire''. Cambridge University Press</ref> but also because it contradicts Damascius's own statement quoted in the same entry about Hypatia being a lifelong virgin.{{sfn|Watts|2017|pages=129–130}} Watts suggests that someone probably misunderstood the meaning of the word ''gynē'' used by Damascius to describe Hypatia in his ''Life of Isidore'', since the same word can mean either "woman" or "wife".{{sfn|Watts|2017|page=130}}

The Byzantine and Christian intellectual [[Photios I of Constantinople|Photios]] ({{circa}} 810/820–893) includes both Damascius's account of Hypatia and Socrates Scholasticus's in his ''[[Bibliotheca (Photius)|Bibliotheke]]''.{{sfn|Watts|2017|page=130}} In his own comments, Photios remarks on Hypatia's great fame as a scholar, but does not mention her death, perhaps indicating that he saw her scholarly work as more significant.{{sfn|Watts|2017|pages=130–131}} The intellectual [[Eudokia Makrembolitissa]] (1021–1096), the second wife of Byzantine emperor [[Constantine X Doukas]], was described by the historian [[Nicephorus Gregoras]] as a "second Hypatia".{{sfn|Dzielska|1996|p=67}}