The Murder of Hypatia: How Christian Fanatics tore apart the Greatest Mathematician of her time
Hypatia – the great philosopher, astronomer and mathematician of her time, has
been depicted by the Christian writers in erotic ways. Reverend Charles
Kingsley, for example, talked about her curved lips and beauty of her “every
line”.
This, when Hypatia was rather austere and removed from the pleasures of heart
and