Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned mathematician and philosopher, taught in the ancient world when few women had such opportunities. Her life as a public intellectual and advisor ended tragically in ...
Back in the 6th century CE, it was believed that the intellect was the domain of men. At the time, all the greatest minds that the world knew of were men. But if we go back just a century or two ago, ...
In A.D. 415 Christian fanatics attacked and murdered Hypatia of Alexandria, claiming she was a heretic using black magic. Here’s the truth. A detail from Raphael’s 1509-1511 masterpiece “School of ...
TOWARD the middle of the last decade of the eventful fourth century A. D., when the great Theodosius, who had lately closed the pagan temples, was near his death at Milan, and the kingdom of this ...
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