Hipparchia the Cynic. A Unique Case

Name: Hipparchia the Cynic. A Unique Case
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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2024 - 4

Titolo

Hipparchia the Cynic. A Unique Case

Autore

Maria Protopapas-Marneli

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

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06-2025

Doi

10.26350/001050_000486

Issn

0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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In this paper, I am discussing the case of Hipparchia of Maroneia, the Cynic philosopher of the late 4th century BC. She became the start-point for the reconsideration of the role of the woman as a silent person engaged solely in housework. I will firstly examine the way she refuses all conventions connected to her elite background. Secondly, I will focus on the influence the Cynic philosophy and Crates par excellence had on her in order that she could be transformed into an athlete of continuous corporeal and rational exercise. Hipparchia resists the ironic and hostile comments of her contemporary philosophers by using her rhetorical ability, based on her education from the strong Dogs (the Cynics) and by adopting a lifestyle that provokes a hostile attitude from her contemporaries. As a third and last point, I will show the way she chooses to confront these attacks and how she embodies the Cynic philosophy taught to her by Crates, that is her teacher and husband. Moreover, I will investigate the way she offers her own personality as a vivid example of reassessing the fallacies of the organized society in her day, by becoming, as M.-O. Goulet-Cazé argues, a «féministe avant l’heure».