Beyond the Desert: Hypatia of Alexandria, the Last Librarian (355? - 415)

"Imagine a time when the world's greatest living mathematician was a woman, indeed, a physically beautiful woman, and a woman who was simultaneously the world's leading astronomer. Imagine that she conducted her life and her professional work in a city as turbulent and troubled as Ayodhya or Amritsar, Baghdad or Beirut is today. Imagine such a female mathematician achieving fame not only in her specialist field, but also as a philosopher and a religious thinker who attracted a large popular following.

Imagine her as a virgin martyr killed not for her Christianity, but by Christians because she was not one of them. And imagine that the guilt of her death was widely whispered to lie at the door of one of Christianity's most honored and significant saints."
source: goodreads

Orthodoxy is a psychological phenomenon. It may exist in any religious, political, cultural, or scientific community. It is the posture of the arrogance of those who see themselves as 'the chosen.'...J. Harold Ellens..The Ancient Library of Alexandria and Early Christian Theological Development

• Christians and Pagans in the Ancient World
• Hypatia of Alexandria: Kevin R.D. Shepherd: Commentaries
• Hypatia of Alexandria...Selective Links
• HYPATIA: THE LAST OF THE NEOPLATONISTS
• Hypatia or, New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley
• The Ancient Library of Alexandria: The West’s most important repository of learning...by J. Harold Ellens
• The Martyrdom of Hypatia (or The Death of the Classical World)...by Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian
• Hypatia in a movie
  The movie Agora released in 2009 dramatizes one version of the end of the Great Library, the death of librarian-philosopher Hypatia and the end of classical scholarship. The movie was produced in Spain, but never made it to popular distribution in the US because of it's strong anti-Christian content. According to Roger Ebert in his review of Agora, "This is a movie about ideas, a drama based on the ancient war between science and superstition." A review in the New York Times by A.O. Scott could be read before viewing the movie to identity the various historical figures close to Hypatia.
  
  More about the movie Agora, has been written by Faith L. Justice, titled Agora: the “Reel” vs. the “Real” Hypatia. Part I here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here.
  
  Her interest in people and events of the early 5th century led Ms. Justice to author Hypatia: Her Life and Times and the fictional work Selene of Alexandria.
  
  More on the Movie Agora:
  • What did Hypatia really know? The Science of Agora
  • What did Hypatia really know? The Science of Agora
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  • Was Hypatia of Alexandria a Scientist?
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