As pagans barricade the ancient temple, defending it with stones and clubs, tensions rise. The conflict began when Bishop Theophilus exposed a secret pagan temple, inciting fury among the pagans who ...

Hypatia seems to have been as independent as Socrates, and she suffered a fate even more gruesome than his execution via hemlock. When Alexandria became dangerous, with statues of the gods destroyed, ...

Read on to find out more about Hypatia of Alexandria, Tullia D’Aragona, Simone De Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt and Donna Haraway. Hypatia of Alexandria was a neoplatonic philosopher and well ...