According to Eunapius, Sosipatra was given over to two elderly teachers at the age of five. The two men came to her father’s estate and produced an extraordinary harvest. They promised much greater things if both Sosipatra, already a beautiful child who brought blessings on everything around her, and the estate were given into their care for five years.
On her father’s return, he found his daughter had grown into a highly educated, beautiful girl with psychic and clairvoyant abilities. She proved her learning to him by recounting to him every step of his journey. The two men soon left,* leaving Sosipatra to continue her education on her own. Her father let her live as she wanted and eventually she decided she wished to marry. She chose Eustathius of Cappadocia, a brilliant philosopher in his own right, as the man worthy to be her husband, telling him that she would bear him three sons and that a high place awaited him after his death in five years but that a higher place would be hers.
Sosipatra’s words came true. She had three sons by Eustathius before he died five years into their marriage. After that she moved herself and her family to Pergamon and supported herself there by teaching. This was also where the famous philosopher Aedesius lived and students would go from his lectures to hers, learning from both of them. One of these students cleared up the small matter of a love spell at her request.** Eunapius gives no account of her death, leaving us with the information that only one of her sons followed in her footsteps.
*Eunapius claims that they were gods in human form.
**What is it with 4th century scholarly women and their students falling in love with them?
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Johnston, Sarah Iles. "Sosipatra and the Theurgic Life" - Academia.edu
Sosipatra of Ephesus - Women Philosophers
Sosipatra of Pergamum - Suppressed Histories
Soispatra - Wikipedia