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Melbates 7 Mar 19
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A Bishop called Cyril by memory had her flesh flayed from her body with seashells.

Cyril is correct.

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Would be interesting to see her works if any could be recovered from the library in Alexandria.

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Of course..she was doing the devils work..

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Sagan described her as the first science martyr in the original Cosmos.

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Didn't know this history at all till now. Christians fighting with Jews, Christians seizing power. Sounds like a prelude of the Crusades in Egypt or was it following the evil Crusades?.

pretty sure this antedates Crusades by hundreds of years

@sassygirl3869 Hypatia (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) was a Hellenistic Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was the head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, where she taught philosophy and astronomy. She is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded.

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There is a movie about her.

@David1955 Movies are always about entertainment with a smidgen of facts dispersed throughout.

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No hate like christian love.

Ain't that the truth?

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