Hypatia of Alexandria

I made this tribute to one of the first women of science and reason. Her name was Hypatia and she lived in ancient Grecian times. She may have been Greek or Egyptian.

She was reported to have been ambushed and killed by an angry Christian mob.

Amongst her writings are:

. All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

. Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

. To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

I felt she deserved being remembered.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hyapatia
• science
• women
• reason
• philosophy

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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]

@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.

[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 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.

[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.