Hypatia De Alexandria

What would Hypatia think of a world that denies Science and restricts women?

Hypatia is famous for being the greatest mathematician and astronomer of her time, for being the leader of the Neoplatonist school of philosophy in Alexandria, for spectacularly overcoming the profound sexism of her society, and for suffering a violent death at the hands of ignorant zealots.

Hypatia | Death, Facts, & Biography Hypatia, (born c. 355 ce—died March 415, Alexandria), mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists. Hypatia was the daughter of Theon of A...

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It was always unanimous when it came to blaming women for being women and /or “the Jews”.

Hypatia's Death
The story by Socrates Scholasticus written soon after Hypatia's death and the version written by John of Nikiu of Egypt more than 200 years later disagree in considerable detail, although both were written by Christians. Both seem to be focused on justifying the expulsion of the Jews by Cyril, the Christian bishop, and on associating Orestes with Hypatia.

In both, Hypatia's death was a result of a conflict between the Orestes and Cyril, later made a saint of the church. According to Scholasticus, an order of Orestes to control Jewish celebrations met with approval by Christians, then to violence between the Christians and the Jews. The Christian-told stories make it clear that they blame the Jews for the mass killing of Christians, leading to the banishment of the Jews of Alexandria by Cyril. Cyril accused Orestes of being a pagan, and a large group of monks who came to fight with Cyril attacked Orestes. A monk who injured Orestes was arrested and tortured. John of Nikiu accuses Orestes of inflaming the Jews against the Christians, also telling a story of the mass killing of Christians by Jews, followed by Cyril purging the Jews from Alexandria and converting the synagogues to churches. John's version leaves out the part about a large group of monks coming to town and joining the Christian forces against the Jews and Orestes.

Hypatia enters the story as someone associated with Orestes and suspected by the angry Christians of advising Orestes not to reconcile with Cyril. In John of Nikiu's account, Orestes was causing people to leave the church and follow Hypatia. He associated her with Satan and accused her of converting people away from Christianity. Scholasticus credits Cyril's preaching against Hypatia with inciting a mob led by fanatical Christian monks to attack Hypatia as she drove her chariot through Alexandria. They dragged her from her chariot, stripped her, killed her, stripped her flesh from her bones, scattered her body parts through the streets, and burned some remaining parts of her body in the library of Caesareum. John's version of her death is also that a mob -- for him justified because she "beguiled the people of the city and the prefect through her enchantments" -- stripped her naked and dragged her through the city until she died.

Hypatia of Alexandria: Philosopher, Astronomer, and Mathematician Hypatia, a mathematician, was an important pagan philosopher, a popular teacher in the Roman empire, who came under attack by the Christian Church.

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Hypatia | Death, Facts, & Biography Hypatia, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists. She became the victim of a particularly brutal murder at the hands of a gang of Chris...

Hypatia

Born:
c. 350–370 AD
Alexandria, Province of Egypt, Eastern Roman Empire
Died:
March 415 AD (aged 44–65)[1]
Alexandria, Province of Egypt, Eastern Roman Empire
Era:
Ancient philosophy
Region:
Western philosophy
School:
Neoplatonism
Main interests:
MathematicsAstronomy
Influences:
PlatoPlotinusAristotleTheon of Alexandria
Influenced:
DamasciusSynesius of Cyrene

1st Feminist

Both Socrates Scholasticus and John of Nikiu—and nearly every other text that describes Hypatia's life—tell the same story of her end, of the actions the Christians took to silence her "power" over Orestes. Hypatia was hunted down and kidnapped by a magistrate called Peter and his fellow Christians and taken to the church at Caesareum. Brutally, she was stripped of her clothes and beaten with tiles or oyster shells, supposedly skinned alive with those very same oyster shells. Then, Hypatia was either ripped to shreds or dragged through the streets until she died. Regardless of the specifics, both men describe a murder so brutal, so callous, Hypatia was definitely treated more like an animal up for the slaughter than a human being accused of wronging the government. Whether or not she had worked closely with Orestes, the way of her death was horrific and undeserved.

Derived from Greek 'υπατος (hypatos) meaning "highest, supreme". Hypatia of Alexandria was a 5th-century philosopher and mathematician, daughter of the mathematician Theon.

Caesar's conquest in 48 BC. The ancient accounts by Plutarch, Aulus Gellius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Orosius indicate that troops of Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library during or after the Siege of Alexandria in 48 BC.

Hypatia became a brilliant public speaker and scholar, and she followed her father on the library's faculty. There she wrote on mathematics and astronomy. She did work on algebraic equations and conic sections. She invented the astrolabe for ship navigation and devices for measuring the density of fluids.

If Hypatia's floruit coincided with the beginning of Arcadius' reign, she would have been born about AD 355 and sixty years old in AD 415, an age consistent with the remark of Malalas that Hypatia was "an old woman" when she died.