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After reading the wikipedia article, I'm not convinced that her scholarly life had nothing to do with her murder. In fact, it seems to have played a pretty cruc
by nmrm2 12y ago
After reading the wikipedia article, I'm not convinced that her scholarly life had nothing to do with her murder. In fact, it seems to have played a pretty crucial role.
e.g. we can ask "why Hypatia?" given that there were plenty of worthy targets of public outrage, and Hypatia probably wasn't even the post powerful.
- onetimeusename 12y agoWell, the wikipedia article suggested that it was because they believed she was responsible for Orestes's "unwillingness to reconcile with Cyril". That suggests they were provoked by the content of whatever she was saying to Orestes so if it had been for anything mathematical or philosophical, it was not recorded that way but I don't think there is a lot of evidence to go that route. Here is a blog post by a historian about a movie that dealt with the subject, if you have the patience to read through it all. http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia-hollywood-strikes.html http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia...