Hypatia of Alexandria

[HellenicSacredKin]

whoever says that hypatia wasnt Greek, search in the internet about ancient texts about her and biographies...stop this madness...HYPATIA WAS A GREEK HERO

ΥΠΑΤΙΑ, ΜΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣ ΗΡΩΙΣ

[CassiusAli3000]

Hypatia was an African Egyptian woman...Is this video like rendevous or What?.....African....and not a one African woman in the video.

[LordAfwa]

@CassiusAli3000 If you read below and follow history, Hypatia was Greek. Alexandria was a Greek city. Boy people can get hung up on some weird stuff.

[CassiusAli3000]

@LordAfwa Sorry brother...I know you beleive these pictures but Hypatia was from Egypt...But just like Blue eyed and blonde hair Jesus. Much of our stuff was stolen and lighted up to make others accept it. I love all people but it trips me out seeing this crap.

[LordAfwa]

@CassiusAli3000 Again, you have no idea. Not EVERYONE in Africa is dark. The Greeks established a colony in Egypt and again, Hypatia was Greek. Her parents were Greek. The way you are putting it, everyone in North America is a native american, regardless of where their ancestors came from. Once more for the dummy's "Hypatia was GREEK". She lived in the GREEK city of Alexandria on the coast of Egypt. Alexandria named after the GREEK emperor, Alexander the Great.

[HistoryLover1550]

Hypatia is one of my role models! Until i saw the movie "Agora" and read up about her, i had never heard of her! She was a remarkable woman who did not let religion nor corrupt laws keep her from speaking her mind and doing her scientific research. RIP Hypatia!

[EMovroydis1]

Why are so many women plagued by such insecurity as to waste time making a video like this?

[LordAfwa]

@EMovroydis1 Maybe they are afraid of stupid people like you who can't tell the difference between men and women. I made this video and I am a man. Is there something wrong with you? I think you have serious issues if you need to waste time making a comment such as you have.

[EMovroydis1]

@LordAfwa Oh. It could only seem that a woman could have made this. But I suppose life is full of surprises. I can very well tell the difference between the genders; civilization is dependent on people having that ability. It only took me about five seconds to post that. It must have taken you... well, a significant amount of time more to make your little tribute to an obscure historical figure who most definitely was NOT a feminist--and certainly wasn't killed because she was a woman of science

[LordAfwa]

@EMovroydis1 Again, you show your inability to think responsibly. Of all the billions of people on this planet, you are worried about how I spend my time? I admire women of science. I admire women in general. Most women have had a hard time on this planet because of a false sense that men have that they are superior. There millions of YouTube videos out there that have taken many hours of hard work to create and they are about nonsense. Why don't you go and bother them? Or just go make your own?

[EMovroydis1]

@LordAfwa I disagree. Most everything I watch on Youtube is of my very substantive interest, including your video. Unfortunately, it happened to be feminist propaganda. I don't agree with you that women have been held back. I believe there are other reasons why men are more credited with the sciences, both physical and metaphysical--and they don't necessarily have to do with female 'inferiority.' I 'bother' you because i believe women show their worth in many ways.

[LordAfwa]

@EMovroydis1 Again, you make no sense. Of course you watch the things you are interested in and think them worthwhile. Does that mean that every single video on YouTube is NOT a waste of time? Your thinking is so fuzzy. Try and understand this. Making this video was NOT a waste of time because I WANTED to make it. Just because you don't like it doesn't change my motivation nor intention. I did not make it for you. You really are not getting the point. The world does not revolve around you.

[EMovroydis1]

@LordAfwa I never said it did. My initial comment was grounded on the assumption that you were an insecure woman. It just so happens I was wrong. You're simply just an over indulgent male, which is why you made the video--but I really don't care about your intention; whatever the case is, your silly video misses the point, which is substantially more your problem than mine.

[EMovroydis1]

@LordAfwa In addition, it is important to add that Hyspasia was a virgin, not a career mom. The Catholic Church has produced many such women, and even recognizes them as saints.

[LordAfwa]

@EMovroydis1 I have no idea what being a virgin has to do with it. I don't know why you are referring to career moms. What is the point of that? As for the Catholic Church. I have no interest in the opinion of the Catholic Church. It's an organisation that is long overdue for dissolution. The more you write, the more your misogynism is showing.

[EMovroydis1]

@LordAfwa Her virginity is very important to this discussion. She was a neoplatonist whose piety was most likely similar to that of Christian virgins--many of whom devoted themselves to knowledge as well. I never once demonstrated misogyny here. Nevertheless, just because I couldn't care less about how many female scientists have been recognized in history doesn't mean anything. It's simply irrelevant. I do however think that those who do are either bizarre men, or women with an axe to grind.

[EMovroydis1]

@LordAfwa Moreover, you contention that Hyspasia 'paved the way for other women' is silly. She has no connection to those other women whatsoever. I tend to believe that your fascination with women is a bit unhealthy. There are more important problems than the question of their advancement--especially considering that today they make up 50% of the employed (with equal pay) and even more than that of people in college. I was hoping to learn a little about Hyspasia in your silly video... too bad.

[allsaintsmonastery]

One should not forget Anna Komnena, daughter of Emperor Alexei Komnenos. She was the first woman historian, and she was also an astronomer. She wrote on medicine and other science. Her grandmother, also an astronomer, wrote a book on Significant Women [in the Empire].

[unfukkkmee]

REAL EGYPTIANS KNOW HOW ALEXANDRIA IS GREEK

[bobbyfrappz]

1. 2. 1. 2. !!!! She Came from Egypt and She Was Black!!!!

These pics are far from her image!!!

[LordAfwa]

@bobbyfrappz Actually, you don't know that. Not everyone from Egypt is black. You are just making an assumption. Hypatia was Greek and Greeks are not black. It's one thing to be black and proud of it, but another to try and claim everything. There are so many great black people in history you really don't need to push this line. In other words, get over it.

[Perunfolk]

@bobbyfrappz She was not black.

[allsaintsmonastery]

@bobbyfrappz Hypatia was a Greek in the Greek city of Alexandria. She was not Egyptian. The country was ruled by the Greeks at the time, the Ptolemys. Alexandria was home to Greeks and Roman autorities at the time.

[amorphousguy]

I would imagine Hypatia as having an olive-skin complexion, brown eyes, and jet-black hair. I could be wrong on that. If only the xians weren't assholes about new ideas, Hypatia would never have been murdered, and the Library of Alexandria would have survived. Imagine how advanced we would be right now if the library wasn't burned. Sadly, it took over 1,200 years for people like Galileo to get us back on track with science.

[Zeuxis5511]

@amorphousguy

She was not murdered just because of some stupid new-Christians aggressions. The pagan Philosophers had better knowledge that the ecclesiastics,

There is always a plan behind everything. The council decided in the name of JESUS to destroy everything that had to do with Hellenism and so they did.

[ndg43]

Thanks for this wonderful video. It's great to learn about the great ladies of science that we never hear about.

[bogdansecere]

She was the doughter of Theon, the last director of Librarye of Alexandria. She lived in Alexandria, traveled and studying in whole world from Italy to Greece. She was a descendent of Egyptian Kings with Greek blue blood, first women obtaining a diploma of greek academos in mathematics, rethoric, astrology and phylosophie. A women truly above their times..

[proteus47]

Philosopher and martyr:Hypatia was mathematics,astronomy and one of the most important thinkers of antiquity,killed by cristãos.Fez tantas achievements in literature and science philosophers who surpassed all the time having progressed in the school of Plato and Plotinus,she explained the principles of philosophy to those who hear and many came from far away to receive the teachings.

[PhatSteve7]

Hypatia. We will remember you. FOREVER.

[papcyrill]

this is for the author of the video!! great video !! and she was greek!! as alexandria actually was a greek city in egypt!! founded by greeks and build by greeks!! so that's why so many greeks lived in Alexandria!!!

[lonebison]

Nicely done!! Hypatia has been my hero for years. I have a large custom made decal on the back of my car that says: "THINK like Hypatia"

People ask me all the time, "who is Hypatia?" Very sad, but I am glad to give them a quick history.

[FizzyBublech]

Hypatia had found an original manuscript of the story of Jesus (a play written by a Roman named Aavid) at the library of Egypt (or Library of Alexandria) and supposedly was going to the Vatican with it when she was accosted by a mob lead by Bishop Cyril who was later named a Saint. Dont you love the church?

[macnutz]

This ceaseless attempt to muzzle women has cut human potential in half, quite literally in half.

The ignorance, the arrogance, and the bloody violence of religion continues to stifle our potential. It needs to go.

[SuperNivie]

I also heard she had red hair that was adorned with gold nets her father spoiled her with...

Theon warned her not to go to Egypt or she would be killed. I heard it speculated that she told him she would rather be dead than live in a world where women could not think for themselves.

[tektamos]

Good job LordAfwa

I just would like to add

that of course she was Greek, her father was the famous Theon (Math teacher too)

She died from 13 mugs sent from Archepiskop of Alexandreia Kyrillus

Like millions of Greeks who didn't want to be Christians 330ac - 700ac

[4me2cclearly]

Christians burned the priest Giordano Bruno to death for the charge of holding opinions contrary to the Catholic faith. They imprisoned Galileo for his heretical ideas of heliocentric solar system, and rejected his science (by the way, The Greek thinker, Aristarchus, developed the first heliocentric theory in 270 BCE, not Copernicus as many Christians falsely believe).

[BoyintheMachine]

I found it amazing of how far ahead Bruno was for his time, I mean in late 1500's to suggest that earth was just one planet containing intelligent life among countless others is amazing. However, I think his Pantheist beliefs and his willingness to debate the divinity of Jesus proved more damning to him.

Poor Bruno. you martyr of Free Though.

Will we ever be free of the tyranny of religion?

[4me2cclearly]

I hope for the sake of all of humanity we will.

[alien8ted]

At last! They're making a movie about Hypatia, the great woman philosopher who was flayed alive and burned by a xian mob, the movie's called 'Agora' and stars Rachel Weiss as Hypatia. Looks like the makers aren't shy about depicting violent xian mobs smashing up Alexandria, beating and killing people and burning down houses and destroying the great library.

Trailer here:

watch?v=5IuNqdE95LE

[LordAfwa]

Thanks for the link. It looks good and I can't wait for it to be released.

[kiwiaress]

May I add, Hypatia was a Martyr! A Greater, gentler, and more reasonable exponent of one's beliefs may be hard to find. In any historian's books!

[alien8ted]

I saw Jocelyn Bell-Burnell lecture recently on neutron stars (she discovered the first pulsar in 1967), simply brilliant! May I add to this illustrious list these astronomers: Annie Jump-Cannon, Henrietta Leavitt-Swan, Monica Grady, and the psychologists Susan Blackmore, Susan Greenfield and the writer Helen Ellerbe. The story of Hypatia needs to be more well known. There's a good Carl Sagan video on her on youtube.

[LPF767]

Thank you for this great video honoring WOMEN of outstanding spiritual essence, long live Hypatia is all of us.

[Hypatia175]

Ευχαριστώ from both of us.

[just2w4tch]

the concept of the life and death of Hypatia is a noble one. but so little is known as you mention, this may have been an incident more of class warfare than anything else. we just can't know.

[procrastinator99]

That is not true, scholars are pretty sure that she was murdered by Christian fanatics for being a woman in power.

[vulsinias]

Gracias por este bello y justo tributo, encaminado a rescatar el extraordinario espiritu de Hypatia que ha sido practicamente desconocido hasta ahora. Felicitaciones!

[Hekatos89]

We will never forget her.

She was a great Teacher

of the hellenic Religion.

[vzgn0sis]

I just finished writing a novel about Hypatia. Thanks for sharing this!

[CamelRider37]

Murder of Hypatia:

Brutally murdered by a mob of monks agitated by Bishop Cyril of Alexandia, and led by Cyril's right-hand man, Peter the Reader.

Hypatia was set upon by the fanatic christian mobsters as she was going in her carriage from her lecture-hall to her home. She was dragged to a nearby church where mob-rule took control. Stripped, beaten and hacked to pieces. Her dismembered body was burned to hide all traces of the crime.

[Metania01]

That is not proven, she may had been murdered by men idololaters as well.

[CamelRider37]

Dear Tania: It might be hard for you to believe how Hepatica life was ended may be because of your religious beliefs, just google Hyptia of Alexandria, and you will find many respected scholars support my claims she was killed by fanatic Christian zealots. There is a dark side for every religion in this world many believers find it hard to accept.

[arcadian33333]

yes hypatia cristians slayed her ugly

they were slaying greeks ugly

[Betonrg]

HYPATIA.... The first time I read about her was when I was in middle school, She was one of the most intelligent person in this world... Saddly killed by inhuman mind...

[ryu8888]

:( 'tis the saddest.

[JupiterGodZeus]

Women have always been the center of our civilization, the housekeepers, those who taught values to our children, a strong home is necessary for a strong nation. God bless the hearts of our women.

[polnochka]

=D

My favourite Video so far.

[sunkiara]

You keep on inspiring me that i and my daughters are worthy and capable of everything and inferior to no one.