Hypatia Research Paper

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Hypatia was a famous Neoplatonist philosopher from Alexandria Egypt. Her father was Theon a well-known mathematician and astronomer that are mostly known for the invention of the astrolabe and artifact used to measure the altitude of a planet or star. Hypatia was following the steps of her father until she decided to travel to Rome and Greece to work on her post graduate carrier. She was well known around the Mediterranean for her brains and beauty.
Hypatia’s trip to Rome and Greece helped her gained so much reputation that when she returned to Alexandria there was many people interested in getting classes from her. She began to lecture and tutor people from Alexandria until she met Orestes the governor of Alexandria who hired her as one of his advisors. Hypatia also helped …show more content…

This same museum is known to be one of the places where many well-known European scientists conduct their research in that era. Some of the well-known scientist includes Galen, Archimedes and Euclid.
Hypatia was a pagan and lived during a period where the Christians of the Mediterranean had problems with the pagans. During her lifetime she also thought Christian and non-Christian students. During the rivalry period betiween the Christians and the pegans, many people shifted to chirstianity because of the high number of murders.Hypatia was a high pagan supporter and refused to shift to Christianity.
Cyril the Christian church leader ordered an attack on Hypatia, because of her popularity between the pagan communities. However it is said that the bishop canceled her persecution before it happened. Witnesses in that era shared that a group of monks surrounded Hypatia, dragged her into the Caesarian, stripped her naked and stripped her flesh from her body with sharp oysters. The group of monks then dragged her dead body and threw it into a

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