Hypatia Teaching in Alexandria , Aquarell und braune Tinte auf Papier von Robert Trewick Bone; 
im Yale Center für britische Kunst, New Haven, Connecticut.

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

Hypatia of Alexandria
‘Death of Hypatia’. – Anon. woodcut, colour added later. From: Hermann Göll, Die Weisen und Ge- lehrten des Alterthums, Leipzig (Otto Spamer) 1876

“Almost alone, virtually the last academic, she stood for intellectual values, for rigorous mathematics, ascetic Neoplatonism, the crucial role of the mind, and the voice of temperance and moderation in civic life”

Michael Deakin, Author

Portrait of Hypathia of Alexandria

Philosopher-Mathematician-Astronomer

– born around 355 CE, in Alexandria

– Theon of Alexandria, her father is a teacher at the famous Museion in Alexandria

– despite her sex, she becomes a teacher at the Museion

– she is one of the most renowned philosophers of her time

– as a Neoplatonist, she is a “pagan”

-she lives at a time of bitter religious conflict between Christians, Jews, and pagans

– she achieved great influence in the patriarchal world of antiquity

– she was considered as very beautiful, gracious and feminine

Worth noting

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Hypatia of Alexandria