Theatre in the Round - Trailblazing Women - March 2024
Hypatia (350/370-415) her exact age is unknown, and was born in Alexandra, Egypt. Hypatia is the first documented female philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. She was a teacher that taught students from all over the Mediterranean. She was gruesomely murdered by a mob of Christians 415 AD and became known as the Martyr of philosophy. In the twentieth century, she became an icon of women's rights and is considered the forerunner of feminism, as demonstrated in this quote from Wikipedia, "Damascius states that Hypatia remained a lifelong virgin and that, when one of the men who came to her lectures tried to court her, she tried to soothe his lust by playing the lyre. When he refused to abandon his pursuit, she rejected him outright, displaying her bloody menstrual rags and declaring "This is what you really love, my young man, but you do not love beauty for its own sake." Damascius further relates that the young man was so traumatized that he abandoned his desires for her immediately." Mad props to the historians that documented this quote throughout history.
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