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 ...

Hypatia’s intellect made her famous, but it also made her a target. Discover the shocking story of how politics, philosophy, and religion led to the brutal killing of one of history’s greatest ...

On the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, a mob led by Peter the Lector brutally murdered Hypatia, one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria. Mary Evans Picture Library / Alamy One day on ...

Naomi Alderman's tale is a murder mystery, the story of Hypatia, the mathematician murdered by a mob in the learned city of Alexandria, around the year 415 CE. Hypatia was a communicator of ...

Socrates proceeds to record, in the same dispassionate strain, the unspeakable tragedy of Hypatia’s murder by a Christian mob, twenty years later than the time of which we now speak, adding that ...

‘O n a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanly butchered by the hands of Peter the reader, and a troop of savage ...

Naomi Alderman's tale is a murder mystery, the story of Hypatia, the mathematician murdered by a mob in the learned city of Alexandria, around the year 415 CE.

It turns out the only philosopher who cut muster for The Good Place was Hypatia of Alexandria, ... whereas her death is generally accepted as having occurred in March 415 CE.