List of 999 women of the Heritage Floor / Hypatia

This list describes the place setting for Hypatia on the table of Judy Chicago's art installation The Dinner Party . It is part of the list of 999 women on the Heritage Floor who are assigned to the respective place settings on the table. The names of the 999 women are on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which is arranged below the table and belongs to the art installation.

description

The installation consists of a three-sided table, each with 13 historical or mythological personalities, thus a total of 39 people, from prehistory to the women's rights movement . These people were assigned a place setting at the table, consisting of an individually designed table runner, an individually designed plate, a goblet, knife, fork, spoon and serviette. The first page of the table is devoted to prehistory up to the Roman Empire , the second to Christianization up to the Reformation and the third from the American Revolution to the women's movement. Each place setting on the table is assigned additional personalities who have received an entry on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which occupies the space under the table and the center of the space between the sides of the table. This list records the personalities assigned to the Hypatia table setting. Your seat is on the first side of the table.

Hints

In addition to the names as they are used in German transcription or in scientific usage, the list shows the spelling chosen by Judy Chicago on the tiles.

The information on women who do not yet have an article in the German-language Wikipedia is referenced by the individual references listed under comments . If individual information in the table is not referenced via the main article, additional individual references are given at the relevant point. If there are any discrepancies between the information provided in Wikipedia articles and the descriptions of the work of art on the Brooklyn Museum website , this will also be indicated under Comments.

Place setting for Hypatia

Hypatia, Charles William Mitchell (1885)

Hypatia was born in Alexandria in 355as the daughter of the astronomer and mathematician Theon of Alexandria . Through her father she received a mathematical and astronomical education; she was also trained in philosophy. She worked with him on his astronomical research and, after completing her training, began teaching herself. Her work and her teaching were not handed down and details are no longer known today. In Suda an article is dedicated to her, but when put together from different sources it gives a mixed picture. She does not seem to have had a permanent position or a publicly funded chair; she taught publicly, represented a neo-Platonism, presumablyenrichedwith Cynical ideas,and walked the streets in her scholarly cloak.

In Alexandria, which was increasingly influenced by Christianity, she belonged to the non-Christian philosophical tradition and was ultimately the victim of a power struggle in which religious opposites were instrumentalized. She was brought to a church by a Christian mob, where she was murdered and dismembered. From a feminist point of view, she appears as an early, highly educated representative of an emancipated femininity and a victim of the misogynistic attitude of her opponents.

Your table setting on the dinner party table is characterized by motifs in the Coptic style, the emerging Christianity, their time. The table runner is edged with woven woolen ribbons, the sides are decorated with heart motifs that are similar to the ornamentation of Coptic tunics. The back of the runner shows four weeping women's faces of different ages, which represent Hypatia in the Coptic style and are supposed to represent women of all ages. Their appearance is blurry and surrounding limbs are dragged in different directions. This portrayal represents the brutality of their murder. The dominant colors in this part of the table runner are blood red and a colorful rainbow of tones, which are intended to indicate the violence and beauty in the life of Hypatia. The colors used in the rest of the runner are orange, red and green and they are taken up in the design of the plate. This is designed with a leaf motif, which is based on motifs that can be found on Coptic tapestries. The shapes are reminiscent of a butterfly and the lower structures create an illusion of movement. The initial letter "H" on the front of the table runner is decorated with a face.

Surname	Spelling on the tile	Date of birth	cultural spatial assignment	Remarks	image
Aemilia Hilaria	Aemilia	at 300	Roman Imperial Era	Gallo-Roman doctor.
Agatha of Catania	Agatha	at 225	Roman Imperial Era	Martyr and saint who died as a consecrated virgin rejecting the marriage proposal of the pagan governor of Sicily, Quintinianus.
Barbara of Nicomedia	Barbara	3rd century	Roman Empire , Nicomedia	Virgin and martyr . According to tradition, she was beheaded by her father for refusing to give up her Christian faith and virgin devotion to God.
Blandina	Blandina	around 150; † at 177	Roman Empire , Lyon	Early Christian martyr and saint . City patroness of Lyon.
Clodia	Clodia	around 90 BC Chr.	Roman Republic	One of the most controversial women of the late Roman Republic . It was Marcus Tullius Cicero's disparagement of a dissolute lifestyle in his Pro Caelio speech . Among other things, he said her incest with her brother Publius Clodius Pulcher . From this it was concluded in ancient times that she was the lover of the poet Catullus , called Lesbia , to whom he dedicated numerous poems .
Cornelia	Cordelia Gracchi	around 190 BC Chr.	Roman Republic	She was one of the most important women in Rome in the 2nd century BC. She was worshiped in Rome as the epitome of the virtuous matrona , and after she died of old age she was the first woman to be erected in Rome.
Cornelia Metella	Cordelia Scipio	1st century BC Chr.	Roman Republic	Daughter of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio and fifth wife of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus . Was an eyewitness when Pompey was killed in Egypt.
Epicharis	Epicharis	1st century	Roman Imperial Era	Roman freedmen and member of the failed Pisonian conspiracy against Emperor Nero.
Hestiaea	Hestiaea	N / A	Ancient Greece	Literary scholar who wrote a treatise on Homer's Iliad and discussed the geographic location of Troy with other Alexandrian scholars.
Hortensia	Hortensia	around 95 BC Chr.	Roman Republic	The only woman in ancient Rome who is known by name to have appeared publicly as a speaker.
Iaia	Laya	2nd century BC Chr.	Roman Republic	Ancient painter and sculptor from Kyzikos .
Ima Shalom	Shalom	1st century BC Chr.	Roman Republic	One of the few women named and quoted in the Talmud.
Catherine of Alexandria	Catherine	3rd or 4th century	Roman Imperial Era	Christian saint, according to tradition, a virgin who was martyred by the pagan emperor Maxentius in the early 4th century. Her legend was probably constructed after the personality and fate of the Christian philosopher Hypatia.
Metrodora	Metrodora	490	Late antiquity	Doctor and author of the oldest medical text known to be written by a woman.
Pamphila	Phamphiles	1st century AD	Ancient Greece	Historian from Epidaurus wrote the Historical Commentaries, a comprehensive history of Greece in 33 books. Only fragments of the work have survived, but Pamphila is cited by many ancient authors, including Photios, Diogenes Laertios, and Suidas.
Philotis (also "Tutela Philotis" or "Tutula")	Philotis	4th century BC Chr.	Roman Republic	Slave girl, her plan led to the victory of the Romans over the Latins . Possibly a legendary person.
Sulpicia the Elder	Sulpicia	1st century BC Chr.	Roman Empire	Poet at the time of Emperor Augustus . She was evidently in close contact with the group of poets around her uncle Messalla, to which Tibullus and Ovid also belonged.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brooklyn Museum: Hypatia. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
2. ^ Brooklyn Museum: Cordelia Scipio. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Hestiaea. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Shalom. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Metrodora. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Pamphile. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Philotis. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved October 18, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : The Dinner Party  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Brooklyn Museum, Hypatia
• The Dinner Party on the website of Through the Flower , Judy Chicago's non-profit organization