Hypatia of Alexandria
An Outspoken Pagan and One of the First Women to Study Mathematics, Astronomy, and Philosophy
10 min readOct 3, 2021
Do you think that being a woman and doing something which has never been done by a man is so easy at all?
In the year 415 or 416, a mob of Christian zealots led by Peter the Lector attacked a woman’s carriage on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt…
