A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Hipparcha

HIPPARCHA, a celebrated Lady, who flourished in the time of Alexander,

Addicted herself to philosophy, and wrote some things which have not been transmitted down to us; among which were tragedies, philosophical hypotheses, or suppositions; some reasons and questions proposed to Theodorus, surnamed the Atheist, &c. She married the philosopher Crates, notwithstanding his poverty, deformity, and the opposition of her parents, conforming, from her love to learning, cheerfully to his way of life. She had a son by him, named Pasicles.