Jan 16, 2019 · One early spring day during the year 415 in the city of Alexandria—the intellectual heart of the waning Roman Empire—the pagan philosopher Hypatia was murdered by a mob of Christian men. These men, the parabalani, were a volunteer militia of monks serving as henchmen to the archbishop.

Feb 25, 2025 · Hypatia was brutally murdered by a mob of Christian fanatics. They pulled her from her carriage on a street in Alexandria, dragged her to a church, stripped her naked, beat her to death and/or flayed her, tore off her limbs, and burned her remains.

Hypatia's murder shocked the empire and transformed her into a "martyr for philosophy", leading future Neoplatonists such as the historian Damascius (c. 458 – c. 538) to become increasingly fervent in their opposition to Christianity.

Mar 1, 2025 · Hypatia, one of the greatest philosophers of Alexandria, was admired for her groundbreaking ideas but was brutally murdered for them by Christian fanatics in the fourth century AD.

Jan 7, 2025 · An accomplished mathematician and astronomer in ancient Egypt, Hypatia was attacked and stoned to death by a Christian mob in 415 C.E. How a Christian, misogynist system conspired to take down a pioneering female intellectual.

Jun 20, 2021 · Hypatia’s murder was not a straightforward religious conflict, but rather it was a battle for power between rival dignitaries. Hypatia was by this point an old woman and she would have been in her 60s when she died, but nonetheless, she still appeared to …

Jan 15, 2021 · Dive into the life of one of Ancient Rome’s most powerful figures, Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned scholar and political advisor to the city's leaders. — In the city of Alexandria in 415 CE, the bishop and the governor were in a fight.

Mar 21, 2024 · 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...

Her brutal killing at the hands of a frenzied mob of Christian fanatics shocked the Greco-Roman world. Hypatia’s murder was a historical milestone. A thousand years of Mediterranean-centered European classical culture was in crisis – five years earlier …

Jan 18, 2012 · The death of the philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria (l. c. 370-415) has long been considered the "passage of philosophy to religion", exemplifying the transition from the pagan values of antiquity to...