/lit/ - Literature

> Hipparchia, the Cynic, was the first liberated woman in history.

>She was born on 328 B.C. in Maroneia, a city of Thrace in Northern Greece. Her brother was a cynic philosopher and she also attended the Cynic School of Thebes. She was the first female student of the School and it was there she met Crates, her brother’s friend.

>Crates was also a philosopher whose style of living was very simple; he owned nothing but the absolute necessities required to live by. Although he came from a wealthy family he lived poor and hardy, anticonformist to all social conventions of his time. Hipparchia adored his philosophy and his lifestyle . She fell madly in love with him and wanted by all means to follow him. In vain her parents tried to change her mind. Eventually she married him and followed him into his unconventional lifestyle.

>We could say that Hipparchia with her free spirit was the first feminist. She lived in total equality with her partner. She even threw away her feminine clothes and they both lived like hippies of their time.