(A philosopher emperor's self-help classic ... One clear thing stands out in regard to Hypatia’s murder. The act was highly ritualized, a feature it has in common with the violent deaths of ...

a political rival of the city's governor in this shocking murder that catapulted Hypatia into immortality, becoming a symbol of science, feminism, and philosophy throughout history. #ExtraHistory ...

a political rival of the city's governor in this shocking murder that catapulted Hypatia into immortality, becoming a symbol of science, feminism, and philosophy throughout history. China fires ...

This is Gibbon’s description of the murder of the mathematician and philosopher Hypatia in 415 ad. Some details stem from his imagination (‘her quivering limbs’); some from mistranslated Greek (his ...

Hypatia was one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria and one of the first women to study and teach mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. Though she is remembered more for her violent ...

Hypatia, a philosopher and astronomer ... her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more.” And on her murder, he wrote: “They completely stripped her, and then murdered her with ...

Hypatia, a philosopher and astronomer ... For all men on account of her extraordinary dignity and virtue admired her the more.” And on her murder, he wrote: “They completely stripped her, and then ...

A.D. 370-415). Hypatia was a pagan philosopher, most famous today for being murdered in A.D. 415 by a mob of Christian thugs who seemed to have hoped the bishop, St. Cyril of Alexandria ...

She therefore succeeded to the chair of philosophy in that branch of the ... the unspeakable tragedy of Hypatia’s murder by a Christian mob, twenty years later than the time of which we now ...