Dirty Girl Things
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Number Sixteen
Remembering Hypatia: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Brian Trent.
In Raphael’s famous 1511 painting “The School of Athens”, the greatest minds of the ancient world gather for debate. . . and in their midst stands a lone woman who would be purged from history books at the Church’s command: Hypatia of Alexandria.
On a November night in Egypt, 414 A.D., one of history’s most brilliant individuals was assassinated. Her name was Hypatia, teacher and scientist of the fabled Great Library of Alexandria and the last glimmer of hope before the Dark Ages.
Based on the true story, Remembering Hypatia explores the murder of one of history’s most brilliant individuals—Hypatia, teacher and scientist of the fabled Great Library of Alexandria.
The Roman Empire is crumbling, the fragments of the classical world regrouping in Egypt when Thasos, son of an ill-fated scholar, meets Hypatia of Alexandria. Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher at a time when women were shunned from learning, Hypatia is a daring visionary in a world about to change forever.
As an insidious power-struggle erupts between church and state Hypatia finds herself at the forefront of battle, but she is not alone. Those who cherish her, who will remember her, become her allies – including the powerful Governor Orestes, who keeps his consuming love for her as secret as she keeps her feelings from him.
Remembering Hypatia is a vivid retelling of a now-forgotten historical tragedy, when courage stood against fear, when the legacy of the wise vanished in the dark. Author Brian Trent resurrects the ancient world’s most famous metropolis and explores the final days, not just of a brilliant mind, but of a lost era. . .
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Eve and JW3 and Mélisande
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