How did contemporaries assess the merits of Hypatia, the last luminary of Alexandrian science? Detailed answer

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How did contemporaries assess the merits of Hypatia, the last luminary of Alexandrian science?

The last scholar to work in the Library of Alexandria was Hypatia, a female mathematician, astronomer, and neoplatonist philosopher whose range of scientific writings is incredibly wide for one person in any century.

Hypatia was born in Alexandria in 370. At a time when women had little choice (they were often treated like property), she freely and defiantly intruded into the traditionally male domain. Alexandria was then under the rule of Rome, and the Christian church was gaining strength and trying to exterminate the pagan culture, its influence. Hypatia found herself at the very center of these powerful social forces.

Bishop Cyril of Alexandria despised her because of her close friendship with the Roman governor and because she was a symbol of knowledge and science, which the church in the early period mainly identified with paganism.

Ignoring the danger, Hypatia continued to spread knowledge, until in 415, on the way to the library, she was torn to pieces by a crowd of Cyril's parishioners. They dragged Hypatia from the chariot, tore off her clothes and skinned her skin and meat to the bones with sea shells. The remains of Hypatia were burned, the works were destroyed, and the name was forgotten for a long time. And the church canonized Bishop Cyril as a saint.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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