Hypatia of Alexandria

c. 360-415

Hypatia is famous for being the greatest mathematician and astronomer of her time, for being the leader of the Neoplatonist school of philosophy in Alexandria, and for being skinned alive with oyster shells by an angry mob of Christians led by Saint Cyril as they destroyed the great library of Alexandria.

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