Hedybia

Overview

Title social-status

widow

Date of Birth

4th century

Biography

Hedybia was a widow from a family in Gaul which included learned men admired by Jerome, Patera and Delphidius. We know her from a letter Jerome wrote in response to twelve questions about disparities in the gospels which she sent to him. Jerome mentions the learned men in the preface to his answers, saying one taught rhetoric at Rome before he was born, the other “elevated all of Gaul with his talent in both prose and verse” when Jerome was young.

Letters from Hedybia

A letter to Jerome (late 4th century)

Letters to Hedybia

A letter from Jerome (late 4th century)