Talk:Hypatia

Are there any surviving writings?

In wikipedia:Talk:Hypatia editor Katolophyromai notes that all Hypatia's extant writings are technical works dealing with mathematics. This makes me suspicious if any direct quotes of Hypatia's writing actually exist, at least we seem to have none in eg. Wikisource. There is a very widely copied quote, "To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force," for which I've never seen any original attribution (apart from the book "Hypatia: Mathematician, Inventor, and Philosopher" (2008) by Sandy Donovan, writer for kids and teens). I suspect this quote may be a complete invention. — OttoMäkelä (talk) 07:37, 27 January 2022 (UTC)